Voodoo Rubber Chicken Magic
Or - Spamhaus - Part Three
Someone asked me, why don’t we just use the new reputation service in MailMarshal?
Good question.
Three reasons we decided to use Spamhaus.
1. Spamhaus is much more effective
Independent testing of live data shows Spamhaus consistently blocks about 85% of all incoming spam. Spamhaus has maintained this level of performance for a very long time. The new Marshal IP reputation service seems to block about 40%. We don’t have independent tests. What we can say for certain is Spamhaus currently blocks twice as much as the new Marshal service.
2. Spamhaus cleans your internet pipe and saves you real money
The single biggest reason to run a reputation service is to SAVE MONEY. By hanging up on the spammer when he connects to you. Average spam size in October 2009, according to our research, was 22.1 kbytes. Every single time you hang up you save 22.1 kbytes. And money. And storage. And processor. You get the idea.
Simply put Spamhaus will save you twice the money and free up twice the bandwidth and resources.
3. Spamhaus doesn’t hang up on your mother
It may sound a simple thing to run your own reputation blacklist. I suspect not. We don’t expect Marshal performance to magically shoot up to 85%. In ten years no other organisation has been able to do it. Thing is, every reputation blacklist has a problem managing false positives - that’s when it hangs up on your mother. Not good (assuming she’s not a spammer). I don’t know how Spamhaus do it, voodoo rubber chicken magic maybe, just that they do.
Spamhaus don’t have outages and don’t hang up on Mum.
4. The Marshal IP Reputation service is V1.0
Call us fickle. Call us cynical. We’re probably both, but we still like to see things prove themselves before committing.
I know I said three, but reason one could be called a summary.
In the end, the chicken won us over.
Carlton
- Rubber chickens available in toy stores everywhere.
Comments
Tom Mortimer → www.spamhaus.org
Re: "voodoo rubber chicken magic"
How did you guess? ;-)
I don't know if our Fearless Leader(tm) will be around to say so or not, but you made at least one Spamhaus worker's day. We'll try to keep the magic flowing.
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