Craig Sanders writes that, "orbz.org seems a pretty good replacement for orbs.org. doesn't have a huge hit rate yet but that could be because it's last in my maps_rbl_domains list. on the bright side, they DO separate the listing into inputs.orbz.org and outputs.orbz.org."

Below is the usenet post from mail-abuse.org. Stay tuned.

 From: Margie 
 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
 Subject: MAPS Subscription Policy Changes
 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:45:11 -0700
 Message-ID: 
 
 Effective Midnight 7/31/2001, all non-subscription access to MAPS
 services will cease.  Anyone wishing to transfer or query MAPS data
 must have a signed contract with MAPS, and have access enabled in our
 ACL.   There are several reasons for this change:
 
 1) The data in the MAPS files belongs to MAPS and is copyrighted.
 MAPS, RBL, RBL+, DUL and RSS are all service marks of MAPS.  MAPS must
 have the ability to protect its assets from unauthorized use or
 disclosure by third parties.
 
 2) As MAPS popularity grew, the demand on our resources grew.  We have
 continually upgraded systems, software, and added servers where
 necessary. The end result is our systems and connectivity are
 sufficient enough that providers have no incentive to pay for zone
 transfer subscriptions. When MAPS began to offer paid subscriptions,
 we believed that allowing access based on the ability to pay would
 allow the largest percentage of the net to access the services, while
 permitting MAPS to sustain itself with subscriptions from the large
 users of the services.  What we have found instead is that we are our
 own worst "competition".
 
 3) The economic conditions in the industry have hit everyone,
 including MAPS. MAPS' purpose is to stop spam on the internet. That
 purpose can only be achieved as long as MAPS can maintain itself as a
 corporation. Like any corporation, that takes income.  There is very
 little debate about the effectiveness of the MAPS lists. This
 effectiveness saves its users time, bandwidth and other resources as
 well as giving them an added value to their customers by reducing the
 amount of spam the customer sees in their inbox.  MAPS can simply no
 longer afford to foot the bill for the bulk of the internet community.
 
 
 It is not our intent to put the use of the MAPS lists out of reach of
 the individual or hobby site. We will still offer some reduced fee or
 free query contracts under limited circumstances.
 
 
 As usual, please direct requests for contracts to
 subscription-request@mail-abuse.org, questions and comments to
 margie@mail-abuse.org and flames to dev/null. ;)
 
 
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 Margie Arbon                   Mail Abuse Prevention System, LLC
 Manager, Market and Business Development
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