ORDB seems to have closed its doors. Thats huge — and sad. fare well ORDB. I wish I had more info about this one. If anyone has anything to add (or clarify on the subject) I would appreciate it being left in the comments. By the time I saw this their page had gone down, but I did find a reproduction on The Spam Diaries: ORDB Blocklist Gone.

2006-12-18 11:34
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.

Apparently this is old hat, and I’ve just found out, finally, due to the drying up of my DNS servers caches… Still. So long and thanks for all the fish!