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Posted by Spam Guy on March 22, 2006, 10:12 pm
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I've been hearing their corny-sounding commercials on AM radio for a
while now, and thought it was little more than a gimmick. Then I saw
a few billboard ads in some airports and thought woa- you usually
don't find 2-bit outfits putting up advertising in airport causeways
and gate areas.
Anyone have any opinions/comments about them, their products or their
performance claims?
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
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Posted by Jack on March 23, 2006, 10:42 am
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Spam Guy wrote:
> I've been hearing their corny-sounding commercials on AM radio for a
> while now, and thought it was little more than a gimmick. Then I saw
> a few billboard ads in some airports and thought woa- you usually
> don't find 2-bit outfits putting up advertising in airport causeways
> and gate areas.
>
> Anyone have any opinions/comments about them, their products or their
> performance claims?
>
> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
Not 2-bit, AFAIK. I seem to have been familiar with the company name for
a couple of years, which I suppose must at least say something good
about their marketing.
Regarding performance: I've no reason to doubt their claims, since they
are relatively easy to benchmark. Being appliances, you just have to
plug them in, configure, and start throwing test-data at them. If they
don't turn out to match up to the claims, it's hard for Barracuda to
wiggle - "too many power-emailers", "wrong kind of spam" or whatever.
Anyway, the claims are in roughly line with what I'd expect for a modern
PC running a dedicated mail filtering system on Linux, at least as far
as the low-end systems are concerned. At the top end of the range my
guess is that they're over-engineered. I can't see why you would need to
protect someone's quarantine folder with hot-swappable RAID.
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Jack.
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Posted by Mike Easter on March 23, 2006, 11:06 am
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> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/
Here's an interesting .pdf about the spam firewall from the site
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/downloads/barracuda_spam_datasheet.pdf
Barracuda Spam Firewall Datasheet
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Mike Easter
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Posted by David W. Hodgins on March 23, 2006, 11:23 am
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> Here's an interesting .pdf about the spam firewall from the site
> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/downloads/barracuda_spam_datasheet.pdf
Barracuda Spam Firewall Datasheet
The only discussion's I've seen about the barracuda spam blocking,
is the auto-blacklisting of any site using it, with the option to reject
spam and viruses, to forged from headers.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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(nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for
use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
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Posted by Bill on March 23, 2006, 12:13 pm
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> wrote:
>
>> Here's an interesting .pdf about the spam firewall from the site
>> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/downloads/barracuda_spam_datasheet.pdf
>> Barracuda Spam Firewall Datasheet
>
> The only discussion's I've seen about the barracuda spam blocking, is the
> auto-blacklisting of any site using it, with the option to reject spam and
> viruses, to forged from headers.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
I tested a Barracuda Spam Firewall here at work as a demo unit, and we
were not impressed at all. We eneded up going with another solution. My
main complaint about the Barracuda was that half of its spam filtering
work was being done by blacklists like spamhaus and spamcop, which can
eaisly be done with any MTA that supports blacklists. They no doubt have
made some improvements since our Demo was over a year ago, but I do know a
couple places using the Barracuda and they confirm that half of the
filtering is still done by blacklists. On top of that it would have taken
15 of them to handle our mail load.
Our solution ended up be ing a very heavily customized version of CanIT
from roaring penguin software. Of course we are a *NIX/BSD shop, and
CanIT depends heavily on *NIX resources.
My 2 cents,
Bill
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