[122865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Feb 22 15:14:28 2010
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:13:58 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B82DDC4.5070408@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/22/2010 1:40 PM, Dave Sparro wrote:
> On 2/22/2010 12:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one:
> Bob's Widgets is running thier own mail server for their 25 employees.
> They decide the need better spam filters.
> They can hire Bob's nephew to drop in a Linux server running Postfix and
> SpamAssassan. In this situation it's OK for Little Bobby to configure
> the Spamhaus RBLs for use on this solution.
> They could also hire Barracuda to do essentially the same thing
> (assumption based on source code published at
> http://source.barracuda.com/source/ ). In this case Bob's Widgets is
> not allowed to use Spamhaus.
The issue is not whether Bob's can use the list to turn a profit, but
whether Barracuda can.
> Their list, their rules; but it is indeed strange to me.
>
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