Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 76.193.116.97]
on December 26, 2008 07:12 AM
I checked into this further and found out that I misunderstood something(as have most others in this discussion thread).
Registering on the EmailReg.org site and paying their $20 administrative charge does NOT get you delisted off the BRBL at all.
If you want to be removed from the BRBL you MUST request removal from it directly on the BRBL removal page (for which there is no charge).
The EmailReg.org list is a completely separate 'whitelist' of IP addresses used by/available to Barracuda and other commercial Spam Filters. The theory is that companies can list all their legit email addresses so that they will pass through any spam filter, so that a spammer/botnet posing as that company would not make it through. I think part of the idea is that it takes a credit card to register, so a real spammer would not give away their identity by registering.
Theoretically if everyone registered their legitimate domains in this way, spam making it through would decline dramatically.
Anyway, if you are on the BRBL and registered at EmailReg.org, the commercial spam filter (such as a Barracuda spam filter) would need to use emailreg.org otherwise BRBL would still block you. So emailreg.org does not replace BRBL removal.
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Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.193.116.97] on December 26, 2008 07:12 AMRegistering on the EmailReg.org site and paying their $20 administrative charge does NOT get you delisted off the BRBL at all.
If you want to be removed from the BRBL you MUST request removal from it directly on the BRBL removal page (for which there is no charge).
The EmailReg.org list is a completely separate 'whitelist' of IP addresses used by/available to Barracuda and other commercial Spam Filters. The theory is that companies can list all their legit email addresses so that they will pass through any spam filter, so that a spammer/botnet posing as that company would not make it through. I think part of the idea is that it takes a credit card to register, so a real spammer would not give away their identity by registering.
Theoretically if everyone registered their legitimate domains in this way, spam making it through would decline dramatically.
Anyway, if you are on the BRBL and registered at EmailReg.org, the commercial spam filter (such as a Barracuda spam filter) would need to use emailreg.org otherwise BRBL would still block you. So emailreg.org does not replace BRBL removal.
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