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@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@
     services although with different aims, procedures and
     reliabilities have been introduced - MAPS itself has a number of
     these (ie MAPS/DUL which maintains lists of dial up modems), the
-    other major source is <a href="http://www.orbs.org/">ORBS</a>,
-    which is a more proactive relay blocking service</p>
+    other major source was <a href="http://www.orbs.org/">ORBS</a>,
+    which is a more proactive relay blocking service, however this has
+    recently  closed down.  For this reason the examples now use RSS
+      from mail-abuse.org in place of ORBS</p>
 
     <p>Exim can use the MAPS RBL and/or any other similarly defined
     service (ie you could make your own additional maps as well).  To
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@
 
     <p>A typical configuration would be a mail system which rejects
     mail from machines that appear within either the MAPS RBL list or
-    the MAPS DUL (Dial-Up List), and also checks hosts in the ORBS
+    the MAPS DUL (Dial-Up List), and also checks hosts in the RSS
     lists but only marking each message has coming via an RBLed host
     rather than rejecting them.  Additionally all mail to the local
     postmaster always gets through, even if the host is in the MAPS
@@ -69,12 +71,11 @@
     configuration file) to do this is:-</p>
 
     <pre>
-# reject messages whose sending host is in MAPS/RBL
-# add warning to messages whose sending host is in ORBS
+# reject messages whose sending host is in MAPS/RBL & MAP/DUL
+# add warning to messages whose sending host is in RSS
 rbl_domains = blackholes.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
         dialups.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
-        relays.mail-abuse.org/reject : \
-        relays.orbs.org/warn
+        relays.mail-abuse.org/warn 
 # check all hosts other than those on internal network
 rbl_hosts = !192.168.0.0/24:0.0.0.0/0
 # but allow mail to postmaster@my.dom.ain even from rejected host
@@ -90,6 +91,6 @@ rbl_log_rcpt_count    # log recipient info of accepted RBLed messages
     <hr>
     <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
 <!-- Created: Mon Aug 25 15:46:41 BST 1997 -->
-    <h4>$Id: rbl.html,v 1.2 2000/08/01 08:34:21 nigel Exp $</h4>
+    <h4>$Id: rbl.html,v 1.3 2001/05/10 11:24:39 nigel Exp $</h4>
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