Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements UNIX and Linux RSS News Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus
# 1  
Old 12-17-2008
Barracuda offers a new -- and free -- alternative to Spamhaus

12-17-2008 12:00 PM
For many years Spamhaus has been top dog in the anti-spam world of DNSBL (Domain Name System Block List; also known as Realtime Blackhole Lists or RBLs). But Spamhaus is no longer a 100% free service. Even small nonprofits are now expected to pay at least $250 per year for a subscription to the Spamhaus DNSBL Datafeed Service. Now a new, free alternative to Spamhaus has arrived: the Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL), provided by well-known, open source-based Barracuda Networks. And Barracuda CEO Dean Drako says the company has no plans to charge for the service in the future. He says that BRBL (pronounced "barbell") "does cost us a little bit of money to run, but we think that the goodwill, the reputation and the understanding that Barracuda is providing the service will do us well in the long run."



Source...
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

1 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Web Development

MySQL: Random offers for every airport

I need to write a MySQL query where it loops through every airport and generates 10 random offers (my offers table is 990,000+ rows) The code I have below works for 1 airport, but as soon as it gets bigger it slows RIGHT down. This is using PHP/MySQL At the moment it takes well over a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: worchyld
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question
SPAMALYZE(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SPAMALYZE(1p)

NAME
spamalyze - Apply multiple Realtime Blackhole Lists to all messages in an mbox SYNOPSIS
spamalyze myspam.mbox spamalyze goodstuff.mbox tail -3000 some.mbox | spamalzse DESCRIPTION
Spamalyze reads in an mbox file containing multiple mail messages and looks up the originating server of each message on multiple Realtime Blackhole Lists. Spamalyze uses Net::RBLClient. Spamalyze lets you find out what the impact would be of filtering via various RBL's. The output report contains two sections. The first section has one line per email message, showing: * Sending IP address * Sending hostname if any * Whether the IP is on a small list of possibly spammish netblocks * A list of letters representing RBL's which returned responses for this IP address The second section contains one line for each of the top RBL's. That is, the RBL's which produced the most hits. The RBL's are listed in decreasing order of hits. Each line contains: * The letter assigned to the RBL - "A" is the one with the most hits * The domain name of the RBL * The number of hits from the RBL OPTIONS
No options. SEE ALSO
Net::RBLClient(3) AUTHOR
Asher Blum <asher@wildspark.com> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Asher Blum. All rights reserved. This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-04 SPAMALYZE(1p)