Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

[Marc Perkel]

rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 06:30 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It appears from Jeff's Blacklists Compared list the Barracuda has overtaken spamhaus for the #1 position. Not sure about the accuracy of the list as compared to spamhaus but seams reasonably good to me. I don't really count apews myself since they are extremely bad, but my hostkarma list is next beating out abuseat, sorbs, and uceprotect. Thanks to everyone who is helping me with my tarbaby project to catch virus bots. http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Project_tarbaby Congrats to Barracuda! I suspect that they, in Barracuda 'time honoured tradition' are stealing Spamhaus data and cobbling it with their own. They sure as hell got caught out using CBL data last year. As far a Barracuda 'lists' are concerned I'm far more interested in the BARRACUDA WHITELIST and, the baby 'pay to spam' emailreg.org they have cobbled into their boxes. Plenty of Barracuda customers have the Barracuda 'Reputation' list set to 'Quarantine' because they feel it lacks accuracy. I won't go on about how doing this forces a Barracuda to struggle.... everyone knows that they are rubbish. And just to be clear - yes, former Barracuda Support Staff. I walked away {you could not dream up how the place is run}. MY CHOICE - NOT THEIRS. My experience is that the barracuda lists are reasonably good. A few FP but not a lot. And if they are exceeding spamhaus then even if they were stealing their lists they are adding a lot of data spamhaus doesn't have. I'm just wondering what they are doing new. A few weeks ago I was beating them. Granted Jeff's list isn't exactly a scientific process but it's te only one out there.