[geeks] Email blocked due to "Barracuda Reputation"

[Phil Stracchino]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> A mailing list I am currently on suddenly started to use Barracuda
> Networks "whitelist" to block email. 
> 
> Is this legit, or is it just some way of making you register with them
> so that they can get something out of your registration?
> 
> <rant>
> I'm really getting tired of these things happening, it seems to me the
> mailing list provider has a desire to block everyone except disposable
> email accounts. (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail), which is where almost all of
> of the SPAM and scams on the list come from. :-(
> 
> I really think they should move the list to Yahoo.
> 
> </rant>


IMHO, anyone who uses a whitelist-only policy for a public mailing list,
using a whitelist published by an unrelated commercial vendor, is an
idiot.  The odds against the whitelist being both complete and accurate
are astronomical.


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