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Thank you very much spammers. You are doing a great job by DDoSing blacklists, and no one can stop you.
Bad news for all anti-spam activists is that SORBS (Spam and Open Relay Blocking System) is out of order. The very same thing happened to OpenRBL. Their website reads:
503 – website unavailable due to ddos
Update 2003-09-17: flooding continues, periodically morphing
Update 2003-09-19: setup of new server delayed until monday
some testing planned for tuesday, relaunch on wednesdayThe website will be unavailable for at least a couple of days until
everything has been reconfigured to reliably resist such future attacks.
For dnsbl-lookups please use http://moensted.dk/spam/ instead.
Many mail servers were using these services for a long time, but now that they are DDoSed to death, no one cares. The only thing people do is removing dead DNSBLs from their list.
Maybe Jon Lasser was right.
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Re: “SORBS is fading out”
Nope – it’s alive and well. SORBS is not going away anytime soon.
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matthew (@sorbs.net)
Hello all
Sorbs might be a pain in the ass if you ever get listed, but ddosing won’t help that. And those who’m encountered a listing wrongfully won’t get retested during the downtime of the site.
So the only ones actually benefitting from these kinds of attacks are the “real” spammers. And those people can burn in hell for all that I care.