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Controversy
Rhyolite Software, LLC maintains a spammer blacklist that includes Address.com, a company co-founded by Barracuda Networks founding member Michael Perone. This apparent conflict of interest has led some to question the sincerity of Barracuda's spam-fighting intentions, considering that one of its key executives is himself an alleged spammer. Perone has aggressively addressed these claims, but, according to Rhyolite, failed to provide convincing evidence against their allegations. Rhyolite's website maintains a transcript of this debate.
As of 2006 Michael Perone no longer is the owner of address.com.
This is hardly a controversy that affects Barracuda Networks in any significant way. Rhyolite is a one-person company, and that one person got a marketing message he didn't ask for, so (as is his right) he summarily declared address.com a spam source. This is not significant enough to remain in the article, because (1) the advertising wasn't for Barracuda, (2) the blacklist entry isn't directly related to Barracuda, (3) it was almost two years ago, (4) for an unrelated domain that's no longer even controlled by the alleged spammer, (5) who just happened to be a co-founder of Barracuda but was also involved in other "internet enterprises."
Who are the "some" (see WP:AWW) that are said to question Barracuda's sincerity as a spam fighter? I've read all the material at Rhyolite and I'm not led to that conclusion, and haven't ever heard anyone question their sincerity. Hollaback22 calls this a "perfectly valid criticism" but I don't see how it's anything but tangential.
— RandallJones 00:57, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I think Barracuda acknowledge it's bad to bounce mail to fake addresses, just like the anti-virus firewalls did. So, why is it that the default config for their firewalls? Why can't the default config be to REJECT any spams at SMTP connection time? By the way, a REJECT will still generate an NDR, but it won't be sent by the Barracuda firewall to the forged email in the spam that got rejected. In 99% of the cases, a zombie-sending spam won't do anything when an email it's blasting gets rejected at SMTP level. I have had my share of backscatter from Barracuda boxes. With each new one that is sold, I get more of it (until the customers clue-in and turn off the default setting, many of them thank me for explaining). I'd be very curious how many admins "like" the 'SAFE' mode -- they surely get lots of complaints from SpamCop about the backscatter. I get 900+ backscatter messages/day, not all of it comes from Barracudas, but I report it all to SpamCop, which in turn dings the admins of the offending servers (Barracuda customers included). Fuhrmanator ( talk) 19:07, 21 March 2008 (UTC)“Backscatter” is email that is sent from your Barracuda Spam Firewall to a forged email address. Spam and virus emails generally contain fake email addresses. By default the Barracuda Spam Firewall is configured in a SAFE configuration. This SAFE configuration will send a bounce message whenever an email is blocked by the Barracuda Spam Firewall.
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While self-published sources are acceptable in many circumstances, it is not acceptable to use them for promotional material. If you can rephrase them to use a more objective tone, that would be fine. It would be better if you could find third party reliable sources for the content. -- Scarpy ( talk) 21:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
A read of this article gives me the impression that it is as much about the products offered as the company, which is supposed to be the subject. To me, this makes it read more like a promotional brochure than an encyclopedia article. In my opinion, everything after the Trend Micro lawsuit paragraph, up to the backscatter section should be condensed to a single paragraph, or perhaps a list. The inline citations are not really required if the website link at the end leads to the same info. The backscatter sections read more like instructional material, and are not particularly encyclopedic in tone. I do not believe that those sections should be kept in the article. Finally, the external links section should have one link to the main website.
I understand that my opinion is going to seem one sided to one of you at least, but this is the way I see it. I hope it is of some help. Kevin ( talk) 10:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Barracuda basically went in to bat for FOSS when sued by trend micro for including the FOSS anti virus software ClamAV in some of their products. I think they won the case (?) and then countersued, saying that if they won they would donate the proceeds to open source projects. I was hoping to find some info on those cases here. Certainly of more interest than the guff about the comapany's products etc. stib ( talk) 15:18, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi...As the appointed independent online reputation manager for Barracuda I'd like to suggest an update of the website URL to https://www.barracuda.com/ Thanks Ronnie Findlay ( talk) 13:34, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Add URL independent research division https://barracudalabs.com/
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The first pass needs to filter current activities to the top of the list. It presently reads like a eulogy written by an algorithmic sports news service. — MaxEnt 22:41, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
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