Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee?
That would be strange indeed. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Dean Drako <dr...@barracuda.com> wrote: > > With respect to Barracuda Networks and Spamhaus. > > I expect, but I do not know, that Spamhaus probes on port 25 > in order to identify Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewalls and then block > their access to their RBL. Many Barracuda customers have been > cut off without warning causing them trouble and pain. > > Barracuda attempted to find a deal that would work for licensing > Spamhaus for our products, however, spamhaus's desire for money > could not be met without significantly increasing the price to > each of our customers. They wanted us to charge the > spamhaus feed price to each of our customers. > We tried to find an arrangement for a long time. I personally > love the work that spamhaus has done. I was disappointed that we could > not find an arrangement once they changed into a commercial entity and > started charging customers. When they were providing a free > service we promoted them strongly, but when they started charging > the customers that really used it, we had to part ways. > It is a pity. > > We recommend customers use only Barracuda's Free RBL: "BRBL" > and this is now built into the Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall. > http://www.barracudacentral.org/rbl > > The BRBL is provided at no charge to anyone who wants to use it (even > non barracuda customers). > The BRBL has a full time staff that answers phone and email > to correct any false positives and handle removal requests -- unlike competing > services that charge money and who do not provide a staff. We will consider > providing data feeds if anyone has interest. We currently provide > the BRBL as a free service. We make no claims about it being better > or worse than any other RBL. It does use a massive amount of data in > order to determine which IP's should be on the list. Others have made claims > about its accuracy and say great things about it. Others complain that > we unjustly block them, however, 99.9% of the people who are blocked and who > contact > us find a BOT in their network. > > > Sincerely, > > Dean Drako > CEO Barracuda Networks > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)