Posted by: Paul C. Bryan
on December 19, 2008 01:48 AM
You're comparing apples to oranges.
Spamhaus is not charging for their service except for those who need their data feed, which uses a lot of bandwidth. As far as I can tell, Barracuda isn't even providing a data feed service! The Spamhaus DNS-query based service (like Barracuda) is free of charge.
To date, Spamhaus has a very good reputation, with near-zero collateral damage, in large part because they've strongly codified their policies and backed them up with vigilant investigators and administrators. Their policy: you are considered an offender if you send unsolicited bulk mail. You must meet this criteria to be listed.
As far as I can see, Barracuda has no such policy documented. Their methodology purportedly uses "honeypots" to attempt to automatically detect spammers -- presumably if you send an email to such an address, the server you send it through is considered an offender. I'm not sure how well this works, but I would at least wait for some independent testing of Barracuda to come out before switching my DNSBL server to them.
C'mon Robin, next time, compare apples to apples, wouldya?
[Modified by: Paul C. Bryan on December 18, 2008 05:58 PM]
[Modified by: Paul C. Bryan on December 18, 2008 05:59 PM]
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Posted by: Paul C. Bryan on December 19, 2008 01:48 AMSpamhaus is not charging for their service except for those who need their data feed, which uses a lot of bandwidth. As far as I can tell, Barracuda isn't even providing a data feed service! The Spamhaus DNS-query based service (like Barracuda) is free of charge.
To date, Spamhaus has a very good reputation, with near-zero collateral damage, in large part because they've strongly codified their policies and backed them up with vigilant investigators and administrators. Their policy: you are considered an offender if you send unsolicited bulk mail. You must meet this criteria to be listed.
As far as I can see, Barracuda has no such policy documented. Their methodology purportedly uses "honeypots" to attempt to automatically detect spammers -- presumably if you send an email to such an address, the server you send it through is considered an offender. I'm not sure how well this works, but I would at least wait for some independent testing of Barracuda to come out before switching my DNSBL server to them.
C'mon Robin, next time, compare apples to apples, wouldya?
[Modified by: Paul C. Bryan on December 18, 2008 05:58 PM]
[Modified by: Paul C. Bryan on December 18, 2008 05:59 PM]
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