On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
On 2/18/2010 2:36 PM, Crist Clark wrote: Would appear to this uninformed ignoramus that Barracuda is using the data for a commercial purpose and should be buying the feed.
According to the Spamhaus web site, Your mail volume is automatically assumed to be very large, if you use a dedicated anti-spam server/appliance of any type. It would appear that the logic is: "everyone who has a low volume of mail MUST perform all spam filtering on the mail server, and not have any separate machine dedicated to spam filtering". http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Datafeed%20FAQ#153 " If your email volume is big enough that you need a Barracuda or similar spam filter appliance, then you certainly CAN NOT use Spamhaus's free public DNSBL servers. " Except that Baracuda appliances do not use the Spamhaus list, unless the spam firewall admin manually makes a decision to add one of the Spamhaus listss as a custom DNSBL. Baracuda _used_ to use Spamhaus by default. They stopped using it by default in version 3.5.12, in July of 2008. http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/support/tech_alert.php "The Barracuda Spam Firewall used to enable Spamhaus external block lists by default when usage of those lists was free to all Internet users. Now that Spamhaus is seeking license fees from some Internet users, this change is being made to remove the previous default settings" -- -J