Ad�os a Ordb.org

Ayer me llego un mail informandome que el servidor de listas negra de spam RBL conocido como ordb.org hoy dejó de funcionar.

Ordb.org desde hacen 5 a?os esta mantenida por un grupo de personas que aportaban al proyecto en forma honoraria, el servicio era gratuito y se mantenía de las donaciones que se les hacía. Pero textualmente en el mensaje de despedida dice:

Our volunteer staff has been pre-occupied with other aspects of their lives 

Este servicio era muy usado, de hecho yo lo utilicé durante muchos a?os y con muy buenos resultados, es una verdadera lástima que cierre el servicio, pero como dice, hoy en día hay muchos servicios de RBL y filtros anti spam, los amigos que trabajaban en el servidor decidieron mantener sus vidas.

Pueden leer la noticia de despedida en ordb.org

We regret to inform you that ORDB.org, at the ripe age of five and a
half, is shutting down. It’s been a case of a long goodbye as very
little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while. Our volunteer
staff has been pre-occupied with other aspects of their lives. In
addition, the general consensus within the team is that open relay RBLs
are no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering
your network as spammers have changed tactics in recent years, as have
the anti-spam community.

We encourage system owners to remove ORDB checks from their mailers
immediately and start investigating alternative methods of spam
filtering. We recommend a combination involving greylisting and
content-based analysis (such as the dspam project, bmf or Spam Assassin).

DNS and the mailing lists will vanish today, December 18, 2006.

This website will vanish by December 31, 2006.