Spamhaus replacement

[Scott Silva]

on 12/4/2007 6:36 AM Randal, Phil spake the following:
> ram wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:25 +0700, Budi Febrianto wrote:
>>> Right now we only use zen.spamhaus.org and happy so far, 
>> but because 
>>> spamhaus is not free anymore, now I want some 
>> recommendation for others 
>>> dnsbl.
>> But spamhaus offers free data sync AFAIK if you are using it for your
>> own domain and not selling antispam solution
>>
>>
>> You just need to sign up with them 
> 
> http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html
> 
> "Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs via DNS queries to our public DNSBL servers
> is free of charge if you meet all three of the following criteria:
> 
>    1. Your use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs is non-commercial*, and
>    2. Your email traffic is less than 80,000 SMTP connections per day,
> and
>    3. Your DNSBL query volume is less than 320,000 queries per day.
> 
> If you do not fit all three of these criteria then please do not use our
> public DNSBL servers, instead see 'Professional Use' (below) which
> delivers our DNSBL data to your servers. If you are in any doubt as to
> whether you fit within our free use criteria, or think you may be likely
> to soon exceed our free use criteria, please switch to 'Professional
> Use'."
> 
> "Professional Use
> 
> Use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs by ISPs, organizations and networks with
> email traffic higher than 100,000 SMTP connections per day or making
> over 400,000 DNSBL queries per day, or by commercial spam filter
> services, requires a subscription to the Spamhaus DNSBL Data Feed
> Service, a service designed for users with professional DNSBL query
> requirements."
Don't believe this one, as my server gets less than 10,000 messages a day -- 
usually a lot less --  and I am currently blacklisted.
I even thought about setting caching nameservers on some unused ip addresses 
and turning it back on, but stopped myself. For now! ;-P

> 
> "*Definition: "non-commercial use" is use for any purpose other than as
> part or all of a product or service that is resold, or for use of which
> a fee is charged. For example, using our DNSBLs in a commercial spam
> filtering appliance that is then sold to others requires a data feed,
> regardless of use volume. The same is true of commercial spam filtering
> software and commercial spam filtering services.
> 
> A company that uses our DNSBLs solely to filter their own email
> qualifies as a non-commercial user and may use our free public DNSBLs if
> that company's email volume and DNSBL query volume is below the free use
> limits. The same is true for any non-profit organization, school,
> religious organization, or private individual who operates their own
> mail server."
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Phil
> --
> Phil Randal
> Network Engineer
> Herefordshire Council
> Hereford, UK


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