[122681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Powell)
Fri Feb 19 11:49:56 2010
From: Marc Powell <marc@ena.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B7DA21C.1060608@foobar.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:47:43 -0600
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 18/02/2010 10:40, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
>> They seem to be doing that a lot of late. They also contacted my
>> employer and demanded $100k/yr(?) for having a "Use Spamhaus RBL" in =
our
>> software. =20
>=20
> I sympathise. It's very frustrating when you try to deal with these
> anti-spam outfits in a reasonable way and you're met with almost =
completely
> arbitrary b/s.
What's arbitrary about free for non-commerical use, everyone else pays? =
When you include it in a commercial product, yes, you should have to pay =
for it. If you're making money by reselling or providing access to the =
Spamhaus lists, you should have to pay for it. There's a lot of work =
that goes into it (I'm sure Michelle would agree) and they have very =
specific criteria under which they will allow free use and under which =
they will not. If you don't like it, make your own lists. If you =
*really* don't like it, make your own lists, and provide a free public =
infrastructure to support billions of requests a day.
--
Marc=
