>>>>"Jay" == Jay West <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> writes:
Jay> I am not aware of ORBS blocking whole domains, however, there
Jay> ARE some domains out there that are so exclusively the home of
Jay> spammers I can certainly understand it.
I'm not sure if it was ORBS or another one of those blacklist
"services". In any case, it was blacklisting all domains belonging to
SPRINT and SPRINTnet. I found out because our company uses or used
SPRINT as its ISP, as do millions of others. It turned out that this
was done on purpose.
I concluded that the people running that blacklist are utter morons,
and since then I have seen similar idiotic actions either by that same
outfit or by others like it (for example, blacklisting
adelphia.net
smtp servers because one Adelphia customer sent spam via that server).
That was ORBS, IIRC, and I have to agree with you concerning their
apparent intelligence. Their practices and processes seem much closer
to ideological extortion than to spam prevention.
Doc