Greg scooped me, again. This time it's on the report at the Register that ORBZ has shut down.

Oh, that's such great news. I really hated that "service"... I'm not even a spammer, but their approach to fighting spam sucked as much as it is possible to suck. I'd rather receive 500 spam messages per day than have a single valid email blocked by their foolishness.

Think about it. Would you want all postal mail from Lancaster, PA, blocked from reaching your town, simply because that's where a huge amount of junk-mail catalogs are printed and mailed?

I think not.

I can't stand spam, and I'm an active user of SpamCop, but those black-hole lists are worse.

Unfortunately, they're sprouting like weeds.

John vanDyk posted his thoughts on the issues Macrobyte is facing.

Read my response.

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