On 21/06/2015 01:38, Jered Floyd wrote:
> I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. They seem to > be getting out of the "anti-spam" and into the "protection racket" business. > > A small number of recipients have been getting bounce-unsubscribed a > community mailing list that I administer. The most recent bounces say that > this "blocked using Barracuda Reputation; > http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/ [1]" Visiting that page provides > no information on the specific reason my MTA has been blocked so I can't > determine if there is a configuration issue, but there is a link for one-time > removal. Ask them why, they are under no obligation to remove you, but at least you'll know why your listed specifically. > However, I click through to emailreg.org [2] and AFTER signing up for an > account and configuring it they then reveal that there is a $20 > "administrative fee" per domain. > Thats why most sane admins ignore it, they have been pulling that stunt for many years, and likely why they are used by fewer and fewer companies these days, and why not pay?, its very, very, simple: Trust can only ever be earned - not bought! and just because X trusts Y, doesn't mean its safe for Z to trust Y (seen this first hand many a times over past 20 years), if it becomes a serious problem tell hte end users to complain to whoever is filtering their mail with BN. (we also null out all SA's included whitelist rules) > This sounds like a scam to me. They're blacklisting mail servers, not telling > why, and then offering to take you off the list (without even correcting any > problems) for "just" a $20 fee. I don't see how any legitimate RBL can > operate with that model. They arent the first to try make a fast buck, in years gone by SORBS would only removed you if you paid, its why very few liked/trusted/used SORBS, although you could ask them to remove you and they would, for free, unless you ended up being a repetitive listing I suppose, then I could see them enforcing their policy of the day, they have however changed that these days I've heard, its been nearly 10 years since I've talked to M.S. so not sure what policies they use today . Links: ------ [1] http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/ [2] http://emailreg.org
