Karl, Speaking on behalf of an organization that has long been using Barracuda spam filtering appliances, I can tell you that the company's "reputation" and "intent analysis" services leave much to be desired. Unlike the CBL or Spamcop, Barracuda has never seemed willing to share the algorithms or heuristics used to flag a domain/URL/whatever as "bad." This is understandable in one sense, considering this is most likely proprietary stuff, but it also has caused much operational frustration.
After being burned several times by these shady "reputation" and "intent analysis" rules, I've just given up and gone to manual, wholesale whitelisting of sender addresses and embedded message (body) URLs when necessary. It seems to be the only way to get around Barracuda's default and sometimes inexplicable characteristics. As you can probably tell, I've grown weary and cynical of Barracuda's issues, and we're transitioning to other spam filtering solutions. I've heard great reviews of it in other organizations -- but it's just not working for us anymore. Jason _________________________ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
