On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 18:57 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > For what it's worth I'm now ahead of Barracuda on Jeff Makey's blacklist > comparison chart. Not a scientific comparison but it's about all there > is to compare blacklists. Now only abuseat.org and spamhaus have me > beat. (apews doesn't count because they blacklist everything) > > http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html > > Zen still tops it - and rightly so. It's a fantastic list. The question is how much longer is spamhaus going to exists after they lost that e360 case? Could it spell the end for them?
Barracuda always intended to charge for access to their list. It's been free for around a year now and I wonder if and when that will happen. If you take spamhaus and sorbs out of the frame it green lights the digital shoplifters at Barracuda to start charging. Mind you, you have to laugh at an organisation that buys in some of it's blacklist data and ends up listing it's own customer barracuda devices LOL. Better hope that new lists spring up and Hostkarma keeps climbing. I don't have the experience of apews blacklisting everything. I've had two hits from them in six months. They are at the bottom of my lookup food chain, but I can't cite them as irresponsible in their listing.
