[139481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Klubi)
Sun Apr 10 18:07:26 2011
In-Reply-To: <C9671E96-B4DB-40C3-A6EC-56B796340C24@digitalrage.org>
From: Joshua Klubi <joshua.klubi@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:07:06 +0000
To: Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The best of them is A.S.S.P. and it works wonder I have deployed a couple an=
d I love it
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On Apr 10, 2011, at 12:46, Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org> wrote:
> FreeBSD, Postfix, Amavisd, Spamassassin, Clamav and TLS
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> I have seen and deployed this combination as a mail relay to exchange both=
in and out of large organizations 35,000 plus hosting multiple domains as w=
ell as small organizations. With a few scripts it is essentially self contai=
ning very little maintenance.
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> On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:51 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
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>> OK, its been a year since my Barracuda subscription expired. The unit sti=
ll stops some spam. I figured that I would go and see what they would do if I=
tried to renew my subscription EXACTLY one year after it expired. Would the=
ir renewal website say "Oh, you are at your anniversary date", and renew me f=
or a year?
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>> No such luck: They want me to PAY FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR for which I did NOT r=
eceive service and then for the current (upcoming year). Sorry - I don't all=
ow myself to be ripped off like that. Sorry Barracuda - you get no money fro=
m me and I'll tell everyone I know about this policy of yours.
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>> I posted an article about this unscrupulous practice on my blog last year=
at http://www.john-palmer.net/wordpress/?p=3D46
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>> My question is - does anyone have any suggestions for another e-mail appl=
iance like the Barracuda Spam Firewall that doesn't try to charge their cust=
omers for time not used. I should be able to shut off the unit for a year or=
whatever and simply renew from the point that I re-activate the unit instea=
d of having to pay for back-years that I didn't use.
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>> Thanks
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