On 11.06.10 10:42, Andy Dills wrote:
> After recently upgrading to a new mail cluster with SA 3.3.1, we were 
> contacted (at every imaginable POC address) with a solicitation to 
> purchase access to utilize the Spamhaus blacklists, or they'll stop 
> answering our queries.

You apparently generate too much of traffic for them.> I think the maintainers 
of SA should strongly consider defaulting Spamhaus 
> to "off". At the very least, it should be better documented how to entire 
> disable Spamhaus queries.

They have some limits into which most of companies will fit, but you will
not. As any service, they may have their usage policy which some
companies won't fullfill. But that's not reason why it should not be
defaulted to on.

> They have the right to charge for their data, but I question whether it's 
> appropriate for an open-source project to generate sales leads in this 
> manner.

SA does not generate sales for SpamHaus. It just uses their free service
which won't be a problem fod majority of SA users.

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