Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS

[Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net>]

> >         Nope, they'll list anyone who blocks them, regardless of open
> >         relay status.
>
> If that's true, they're going too far, and won't be able to become 
> widespread enough to matter.

Right.  MAPS narrowly dodged that same bullet several times in the early days,
and both ORBS and IMRSS were created as direct responses to our well-learned
conservatism about who we will blackhole and why.

> That's a damn shame.

Not really.  Failure is a natural consequence of any nonscalable activity.
-- 
Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net>

        >> But what *IS* the internet?
        > It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive
        > symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP
        > packet from".         --Seth Breidbart