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In article <m2lmuty7eq.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk>, Graham Murray
<newspost@gmurray.org.uk> writes

>In demon.service, news1@polka.redowa.co.uk (Tim Willets) writes:
>
>> In fact, as some Demon customers have been knowm to misconfigure their
>> MTAs so that they operate as open relays Demon's own mail servers
>> have at times appeared in ORBS listings. Would you be happy not to
>> receive any mail from any *.demon.* address because one customer got
>> their sendmail configuration wrong?
>
>Why should this affect *all* Demon customers? Demon provide fixed IP
>addresses, so if a customer inadvertently acts as a relay then only
>that customer's IP address should be placed on the blocking lists.

ORBS will list the Demon smarthosts as well if the outgoing mail travels
by these smarthosts - which can sometimes be the case.

People who think that ORBS is a neat idea then block the smarthosts as
well as the individual customer. This then means that few Demon
customers can send mail to their domain (because a great many customers
use the smarthosts).

Pretty much every competent professional I know thinks that ORBS is part
of the problem rather than being part of the solution. There is a lot
more goodwill towards the MAPS initiative.

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