Nimrod, as far as I know, is talking about attacks that occurred in the past (not recent ones which would make 'he hadn't done anything to warrant an extension' relevant). Or at least, I don't think he specified anything about recent attacks. That wouldn't have been possible as Orbitz has been banned from his servers for a large while. I'm not entirely sure on these statements, but still quite sure. Nimrod could shed some light on this.

The listserver community on livejournal actually was started as official news page..

Nimrod, could you shed some light on what resources Orbitz actually attacked, too? Did he only attack your JJ2 servers? If so, the ban seems not relevant anymore if you do not play JJ2 anymore. You could just enforce the ban when you have a server up, which would save you those hours tweaking your router. And I cannot imagine that the few packets needed to call up your serverlist would cost you any money. I think that surfing the JCF for a little while sends you enough packets to compare to quite some time of listserver hosting.