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Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL
From: Joel M Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:39 -0700
Dean Drako wrote: >We make no claims about it being better >or worse than any other RBL.I have some objective data based on our testing here. Over the past 18 months, Barracuda's block rate is 81.9%, while Spamhaus' is 83.3%. For whatever measurement error you want to include, that says that they are roughly equivalent. Over the past 6 months, BRBL is actually getting better: their block rate is 87%, while Spamhaus is 82%.
There is, of course, a catch. BRBL gets a higher rate, but at a substantially higher false positive (FP) rate. We normalize FPs per 10,000 messages our measurements. Over the last 18 months, BRBL was 4.1 FP/10K messages; Spamhaus 0.2 FP/10K messages. Again, BRBL is getting better: over the past 6 months, BRBL went down to 1.6 FP/10K messages, while Spamhaus is about the same at 0.3 FP/10K messages.
So, depending on your definition of "better," you could either say "BRBL is better" or "BRBL is worse." It would generally depend on your sensitivity to FPs.
jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 jms () Opus1 COM http://www.opus1.com/jms
Current thread:
- Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Dean Drako (Feb 18)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Bob Poortinga (Feb 19)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Suresh Ramasubramanian (Feb 21)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Dave Sparro (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Larry Sheldon (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Graeme Fowler (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Jay Hennigan (Feb 22)
- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Dave Sparro (Feb 22)
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- Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL Joel M Snyder (Feb 18)
- RE: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL John Souvestre (Feb 18)