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GFI Acquires Spam Blocklist SORBS
Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2009-11-06
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Control of the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) has officially changed hands. Security specialist GFI confirmed its acquisition of SORBS late yesterday, and also shared an idea or two about what it will do with the entity.
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One of GFI's top priorities appears to be improving the reputation of SORBS. Maintaining a list of email servers that are responsible for sending spam is a fine idea, but SORBS has been accused of being far too quick to puts stuff on its list and being far too slow to comply with removal requests.
Presumably as a result, GFI told John Leyden in a statement, "GFI is now actively developing plans for the future of SORBS, including SORBS 2.0 and methods to improve SORBS data and responsiveness."
GFI then continued, "Having a reputation service within GFI will allow us to provide a better service to our customers and to greatly enhance our standing in the anti-spam community as well as give us opportunities to report on spam trends and analyze real-time feeds in ways we have not previously been able to. We are very excited about this acquisition and look forward to the benefits in the months and years to come."
SORBS's rumored price tag was $451,000, so for the sake of both GFI and unfairly blacklisted companies and individuals, hopefully everything will get sorted out soon.
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Doug is a staff writer for SecurityProNews, InternetFinancialNews, SearchNewz, and WebProNews.
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