Jason Bertoch writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Hutchinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 5:53 PM > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: RE: New free blacklist: BRBL - Barracuda Reputation Block List > > > > For instance, how do Barracuda generate their Block List? I don't think > > this has been answered yet, and I doubt it is the same method(s) as > > Spamcop or Spamhaus, as there appears to be a lot more hits on Spam > > with the Barracuda RBL enabled. This suggests to me that False Positives > > > are going to be numerously present. > > > > I've also read that the Barracuda's NetApp's score hard on Backscatter, > > but yet are a source of Backscatter themselves - I hear a ball of twine > > unravelling here.. enough that would stop me even trying the new RBL - > > Especially with the recent de-listing saga, I've been put right off. > > Anyone with good news about the Barracuda RBL to combat that? > > > > I'd like answers to many of the same questions, although I've already > implemented the list. So far, I've only had one complaint though it wasn't > much of a false positive. I'd started receiving junk from a legitimate > server that normally sent ham. The server was blocked long enough for me to > get one call. Several hours later, it was removed and was no longer spewing > spam.
Well, for what it's worth, in our testing it appears to be very reliable, with few FPs and a good hit-rate. All its hits on my ham corpus have proven to be misfiled spams. It looks very promising as a new SpamAssassin rule so far... --j.
