Yesterday, Orbz.Org pretty much vanished off the Internet overnight after its operator claimed that he had been threatened with a lawsuit because the method that Orbz used to probe for open relays had a nasty habit of crashing Lotus Domino servers (due to a bug in the server).
Little did I know that it was my hometown of Battle Creek, Michigan, that was threatening legal action against Orbz. The city has since dropped all legal action (all it really did was send out legalese wondering what the hell Orbz was doing to their mail server), but with any luck Orbz.Org will remain down.
It is interesting that the folks at Slashdot are all pissed off at this supposedly clueless city of mine that caused what they consider to be an important part of the net to go black temporarily.
No, no, no, they’ve go it all wrong. Battle Creek was simply testing Orbz.Org’s system for any open lawsuit exploits. As soon as Orbz fixes that and tailors its network exactly to our specifications, we’ll be more than happy to take it off the list.
(If you can’t tell from that, I consider Orbz to be second only to Scientology in the list of private evils that threaten the basic functioning of the Internet. I’d rather deal with a hundred spam a day than go along with Orbz’s methods).
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