[governance] Spamhaus

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

I agree with Suresh on Spamhaus being one of the more focused and
well-operated DNSBLs out there. I've used them over years and have had
superb performance and very effective spam filtering. If they blocked off
someone, it's a very rare possibility that the message is good.

We did maintain a positive whitelist to ensure our key clients dont get
"filtered" out though; but thats a different matter... Spamhaus had put up
something about a whitelist they're working on; which I think was
invite-only when I last checked.

-C

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Barracuda is a single vendor .. One out of two or three comparatively more
> obscure ones that seem to do this.
>
> In the over a decade spamhaus has operated I have not seen spamhaus people
> take a single penny from anyone at all in matters to do with listing or
> removal of IPs.
>
> Did you get listed by spamhaus ever?  I am not counting any of the dozens
> of poorly operated blocklists out there, most of which have one guy and his
> family dog using them compared to spamhaus that has a footprint of billions
> of mailboxes across ISPs, civil society organizations, industry and
> individuals with their own mail servers using it.
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 27-Mar-2013, at 23:20, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>
> > I have been reporting cases revealing the absurd autonomy antispam
> businesses have, our services being one of the thousands of victims. Now it
> seems that finally more voices are joining in trying to at least discuss
> the issues.
> >
> > We have all of our addresses perfectly identified in *thick* WHOIS, we
> keep to all rules regarding relating our addresses to our services, and
> still we eventually get caught by an antispam "service" proposing we pay
> them money to get out of it. I recall the case of the infamous Barracuda,
> which sells antispam software, as the first to try and extort money from
> us. Since we protested in quite strong terms and made a bit of a noise,
> they left us alone. But there are plenty of others.
> >
> > Where is the technical community when we need it? :)
> >
> > frt rgds
> >
> > --c.a.
> >
> > On 03/27/2013 10:33 AM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
> >> And meanwhile, quietly, and apparently below the radar ...
> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
> >> Deirdre
> >
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