Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-05 Thread BUZZHOST_STINGER
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:39 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 29-May-2009, at 07:32, Andy Dorman wrote: 1. I could not find out WHY our IPs (we have a block of 32 for the cluster of servers that my email was being sent from) were being listed I do have to add this would be a lie. A call to

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Dorman
BUZZHOST_STINGER wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:39 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 29-May-2009, at 07:32, Andy Dorman wrote: 1. I could not find out WHY our IPs (we have a block of 32 for the cluster of servers that my email was being sent from) were being listed I do have to add this would be

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Bob O'Brien
[mailto:neil.schwartz...@returnpath.net] Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 11:58 AM To: Bob O'Brien; Spamassassin Subject: Re: Barracuda Blacklist On 29/05/09 4:09 PM, Bob O'Brien bobr...@barracuda.com wrote: Neil, Based on our Requests for Removal filed over the past 3+ weeks from ReturnPath, the number

LET'S KILL THIS THREAD (Was: whitelists (was Re: Barracuda Blacklist)

2009-06-02 Thread mouss
ANTICOM-STINGER a écrit : On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 12:16 -0600, J.D. Falk wrote: Rob McEwen wrote: Additionally, I'd like to ask, other than being a superb cash-generating machine, what good is a whitelist built upon pay-to-enter and NOT based on editorial decisions made by non-biased e-mail

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Bob O'Brien
Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting. If your participation is at all typical of this

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:40 -0700, Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting.

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread Andy Dorman
Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. I am also learning to count Jann among my friends, and I'm sure he would *appropriately* acknowledge your greeting. If your participation is at all

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-06-02 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:40 -0700, Bob O'Brien wrote: Actually, Richard, yes - I have management approval for what details I choose to share with any given online community. Share? Oh Sorry Bob. I only had Barracuda down as digital thieves. Let me see; SPAM and 'VIRUS' (lol) 'FIREWALL' BSMTPD

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-31 Thread LuKreme
On 29-May-2009, at 07:32, Andy Dorman wrote: 1. I could not find out WHY our IPs (we have a block of 32 for the cluster of servers that my email was being sent from) were being listed And there are a LOT of stories out there like this. At this point in time I don't care what anyone at

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-30 Thread Bob O'Brien
: Barracuda Blacklist On 28/05/09 10:42 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Yes, every list does have occasional FPs. So your point about those 22 listings is what exactly? My point is the 409 false positives. Sorry if I was unclear or obtuse. -- Neil Schwartzman Director

Re: whitelists (was Re: Barracuda Blacklist)

2009-05-30 Thread ANTICOM-STINGER
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 12:16 -0600, J.D. Falk wrote: Rob McEwen wrote: Additionally, I'd like to ask, other than being a superb cash-generating machine, what good is a whitelist built upon pay-to-enter and NOT based on editorial decisions made by non-biased e-mail administrators? Those

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 29/05/09 4:09 PM, Bob O'Brien bobr...@barracuda.com wrote: Neil, Based on our Requests for Removal filed over the past 3+ weeks from ReturnPath, the number of IPs that you are claiming to have had issues with appears inflated by a factor of nearly 50%. Bob, I don't want to waste

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-30 Thread Res
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Bob O'Brien wrote: Barracuda Reputation does not arbitrarily list hosts. Messages have passed through each host with characteristics indicative of spam. Those listings would only have been cleared because someone contacted the BRBL team and requested their clearance -

Re: whitelists (was Re: Barracuda Blacklist)

2009-05-30 Thread Res
On Fri, 29 May 2009, ANTICOM-STINGER wrote: The Barracuda white list is an 'exclusive' club and I suspect money has This applies to any whitelists, and I never use them, I think, I and my staff are the *only* ones in a position to decide who to whitelist, and I think most ISP/ASP's are of

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.05.09 14:12, Neil Schwartzman wrote: * see the attachment for gross numbers, sorry, I can't show you specifics. [-- Attachment #2: DNSBL Summary.pdf --] [-- Type: video/x-flv, Encoding: base64, Size: 182K --] ... nice joke I'd say. Is there any reason not to put the att. somewhere to the

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread Andy Dorman
Neil Schwartzman wrote: Given the huge amount of bumph I've seen and heard about emailreg.org, I figured it would be an interesting experiment to see if what everybody feared was happening was true. It isn't. No big extortion plan on the part of emailreg and Barracuda that I can see. Neil, I

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 29/05/09 9:32 AM, Andy Dorman ador...@ironicdesign.com wrote: Neil Schwartzman wrote: Given the huge amount of bumph I've seen and heard about emailreg.org, I figured it would be an interesting experiment to see if what everybody feared was happening was true. It isn't. No big extortion

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread Andy Dorman
Neil Schwartzman wrote: Hold up now. Why did you goto emailreg.org?? That is the whitelisting service. I'd go ahead and request a delist at http://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl/removal-request Worked well for me. Good question. I went to emailreg.org because the bounce I got back directed

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Andy Dorman wrote: I went to emailreg.org because the bounce I got back directed me to this page http://www.barracudacentral.org/reputation?r=1 which included this quarter-page ad: --- One way to get your email through spam filters even if you are listed on the BRBL is

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-29 Thread Rob McEwen
John Hardin wrote: It might be less confusing if that ad was presented *after* you've completed the traditional unlisting request... Good point. And I also wonder, how many emailreg payments were made by disparately frantic e-mail admins who normally don't ever send spam, but had a security

whitelists (was Re: Barracuda Blacklist)

2009-05-29 Thread J.D. Falk
Rob McEwen wrote: Additionally, I'd like to ask, other than being a superb cash-generating machine, what good is a whitelist built upon pay-to-enter and NOT based on editorial decisions made by non-biased e-mail administrators? Those two aren't necessarily exclusive. The standards for

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 9:35 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the Barracuda blacklist is not in the official checks by Spamassassin yet?  I keep thinking sometime sa-update -D will add it but have yet to see it. I would like to add some perspective to potential use of the BRBL.

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 09:47 -0400, Neil Schwartzman wrote: I would like to add some perspective to potential use of the BRBL. Three weeks ago, I began requesting de-listings of any IP (active or suspended) on Certified that was listed on the Barracuda BRBL. When I started on April 29 there

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28/05/09 9:35 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the Barracuda blacklist is not in the official checks by Spamassassin yet?  I keep thinking sometime sa-update -D will add it but have yet to see it. On 28.05.09 09:47, Neil Schwartzman wrote: Of interest is the

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Rob McEwen
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: We're not going down the path of judging blacklists based on whitelists or certification services, or vice versa, do we? If the whitelist involves possibly questionable business practices (trying to reserve judgment here), then the information that Neil provided

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread LuKreme
On 28 May 2009, at 07:35, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the Barracuda blacklist is not in the official checks by Spamassassin yet? Yes. Barracuda is a scam. I keep thinking sometime sa-update -D will add it but have yet to see it. And hopefully you never will.

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Sean Leinart
-Original Message- From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:19 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Barracuda Blacklist On 28 May 2009, at 07:35, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the Barracuda blacklist

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Ken A
Neil Schwartzman wrote: - Thank you for contacting Barracuda Networks regarding your issue. ... There are a number of reasons your IP address may have been listed as poor, including: ... 8. In some rare cases, your recipients'

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:10 -0400, Rob McEwen wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: We're not going down the path of judging blacklists based on whitelists or certification services, or vice versa, do we? If the whitelist involves possibly questionable business practices (trying to reserve

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 10:42 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Yes, every list does have occasional FPs. So your point about those 22 listings is what exactly? My point is the 409 false positives. Sorry if I was unclear or obtuse. -- Neil Schwartzman Director, Accreditation Security

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Ron Smith
I would suggest that pay for play delisting fees, like those at backscatterer.org, blur the line extremely between the spammers who abuse us and the services that try to make money off legitimate servers who follow RFCs. And too, what's to say that the spammers themselves are intimately

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread LuKreme
On 28-May-2009, at 09:26, Sean Leinart wrote: Yes. Barracuda is a scam. Can you elaborate a bit? Thanks :0) Barracuda is run by the same people that run emailreg.org which is a $20/year subscription per domain to not be listed in Barracuda's blacklist. Barracuda's policy seems to be to

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:12 -0400, Neil Schwartzman wrote: On 28/05/09 11:39 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Wait, I was /not/ justifying emailreg.org -- actually not even talking about it, but the certification service SSC as a sole base to overrule any other

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 3:09 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: I was merely arguing that not all blacklistings are necessarily bad, just because they happen to be listed in SSC (or any other whitelist for that matter), as I understood your post. Re-reading what I wrote, I can't see

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread mouss
Neil Schwartzman a écrit : On 28/05/09 9:35 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a reason the Barracuda blacklist is not in the official checks by Spamassassin yet? I keep thinking sometime sa-update -D will add it but have yet to see it. I would like to add some perspective

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:52 -0400, Neil Schwartzman wrote: On 28/05/09 3:09 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: I was merely arguing that not all blacklistings are necessarily bad, just because they happen to be listed in SSC (or any other whitelist for that matter), as

RE: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Bob O'Brien
please redirect this thread back to the original _blacklist_ question? Bob O`Bob O'Brien -Original Message- From: Rob McEwen [mailto:r...@invaluement.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:10 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Barracuda Blacklist Karsten

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread J.D. Falk
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Enabled = on the whitelist Suspended = removed from the whitelist, live in the client account Disabled = removed from the client account Suspended on request by the client, suspended due to complaints pending investigation, or forcefully suspended due to abuse and

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 8:06 PM, J.D. Falk jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Enabled = on the whitelist Suspended = removed from the whitelist, live in the client account Disabled = removed from the client account Suspended on request by the client, suspended due to

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:06 -0600, J.D. Falk wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Suspended = removed from the whitelist, live in the client account Suspended on request by the client, suspended due to complaints pending investigation, or forcefully suspended due to abuse and violating the

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 8:19 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Could be any of those. Why does it matter? Suspended IPs aren't on the list. Thus there's little or no incentive to get em delisted from blacklists, no? \I don't understand your question. Incentive to whom? The

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 20:32 -0400, Neil Schwartzman wrote: On 28/05/09 8:19 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Could be any of those. Why does it matter? Suspended IPs aren't on the list. Thus there's little or no incentive to get em delisted from blacklists, no?

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 28/05/09 9:03 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Incentive for you, to get em delisted from BRBL. The funky question is, is BRBL part of your weighted blacklist metric? BRBL was and is in test mode for possible use against our whitelists. Given the huge amount of bumph

Re: Barracuda Blacklist

2009-05-28 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 21:16 -0400, Neil Schwartzman wrote: On 28/05/09 9:03 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: Incentive for you, to get em delisted from BRBL. The funky question is, is BRBL part of your weighted blacklist metric? BRBL was and is in test mode for