ORBS go bye bye?

Mon Jun 4 18:24:46 UTC 2001

As I sit here I'm finding out more details - Apparently it's been ordered
shut down by the courts?  Any truth to this?

-Eric

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>
> >Anyone know what happened to ORBS?  I can't get their web page - all I get
> >is "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer
> >available. "
>
> Alan Brown posted some very terse comments and shut ORBS down.
> no explicit reason was given, but there were apparently a lot
> of things going on.
>
> in the absence of ORBS, MAPS RSS is about the only thing going
> for open relay tracking right now. there has been some rumor of
> other services appearing, but no solid details.