Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Sparro
On 2/22/2010 12:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee? That would be strange indeed Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one: Bob's Widgets is running thier own mail

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 1:40 PM, Dave Sparro wrote: On 2/22/2010 12:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee? That would be strange indeed Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one:

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 14:40 -0500, Dave Sparro wrote: Their list, their rules; but it is indeed strange to me. Not too strange: Little Bobby probably does one or two jobs and goes away, leaving the system to run by itself. the SpamAssassin people receive nothing from his choice of software. If

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 2/22/10 11:40 AM, Dave Sparro wrote: Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one: Bob's Widgets is running thier own mail server for their 25 employees. They decide the need better spam filters. They can hire Bob's nephew to drop in a Linux server running Postfix and

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee? That would be strange indeed. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Dean Drako dr...@barracuda.com wrote: With respect to Barracuda Networks and Spamhaus. I expect, but I do not know,

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Poortinga
Dean Drako dr...@barracuda.com writes: ^ When they were providing a free service we promoted them strongly, Translation: We made money using it and it didn't cost us anything. but when they started charging the customers that really used it, we had to part

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-18 Thread Joel M Snyder
Dean Drako wrote: We make no claims about it being better or worse than any other RBL. I have some objective data based on our testing here. Over the past 18 months, Barracuda's block rate is 81.9%, while Spamhaus' is 83.3%. For whatever measurement error you want to include, that says that

RE: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-18 Thread John Souvestre
Hello Joel. I have some objective data based on our testing here. Over the past 18 months, Barracuda's block rate is 81.9%, while Spamhaus' is 83.3%. For whatever measurement error you want to include, that says that they are roughly equivalent. Over the past 6 months, BRBL is actually