[TriLUG] ORBZ is shutting down

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 15:45, Jon Carnes wrote:
> So the SOB's at Lotus write a broken MTA and would rather spend money on
> lawyers to put orbz out of business, than to fix their damn app.  One step
> back into the mire.
> 
> Oddly enough, I just read an article by the chief architect for Lotus's MTA
> and he was talking about how email will dwindle in usefulness as Spam
> increases and eventually takes over all mailboxes.  He's certainly a fsking
> oracle.

Jon,

I don't read it that way.  It looks to me like the criminal
charges could have come from people that had been affected by
the ORBZ scanning.  In that case, I'm not sure how different
it is from some script kiddie who sets up a ping flood against
someone's site.  No matter what your intentions are, if you
know that doing something to someone else's site will cause
their computer to hang, it's still wrong to do it.

Now, that doesn't mean I don't think Lotus should fix
their obviously broken software.  I do.  I just think
things should be kept in perspective here.

Tanner
(who didn't mention at all what he really thinks about
"blacklists"...)
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