Spam project pulls plug

Iria · Dec 22, 2006, 04:41 AM

Source: ComputerWorld
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December 21, 2006 (TechWorld.com) -- Anti-spam blacklist service, The Open Relay Database (ORDB), has pulled the plug after five and a half years because of spammers' growing sophistication.

ORDB was designed to deal with a technique in which spammers used SMTP proxy servers to flood the internet with junk email. The project distributed a blacklist of mail servers that allowed third-party relay -- "open relays" -- and were thus liable to be used by spammers.

Witchhunter · Dec 22, 2006, 09:45 AM

The best solution is to force education about spam emails, the only reason they exist is because there are so many fools following spam emails, links and messages.

Dec 22, 2006, 04:41 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Spam project pulls plug Source: ComputerWorld ________ December 21, 2006 (TechWorld.com) -- Anti-spam blacklist service, The Open Relay Database (ORDB), has pulled the plug after five and a half years because of spammers' growing sophistication. ORDB was designed to deal with a technique in which spammers used SMTP proxy servers to flood the internet with junk email. The project distributed a blacklist of mail servers that allowed third-party relay -- "open relays" -- and were thus liable to be used by spammers.

Dec 22, 2006, 09:45 AM	#2
Witchhunter DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 77 Rep Power: 0	The best solution is to force education about spam emails, the only reason they exist is because there are so many fools following spam emails, links and messages.