[wplug] Spam question

[Vanco, Don]

> Douglas Green wrote:
> > I have been receiving a large volume of spam (4-6/day)
> 
> I'm sorry, but I just have to say: ROTFL!

+1


> Honestly, I can't remember the last time I got that *few*
> spams in a day.
> 
> I don't know if you're in a position to subscribe to a
> commercial spam filtering service, but you might want to
> consider it. My company subscribes to FrontBridge, and
> they're pretty good. (Of course, they were just bought by
> MicroSoft, so we'll see how much longer they're any
> good.) Assuming their statistics are correct, we're averaging
> about 50,000 spams per day, for a company of 70-80 people,
> with occasional peaks as high as 100,000. The service is only
> about $3/month per person.
> 
> Even after that filtering, I probably get about 20-30 spams per day.

	I've been on Postini (http://www.postini.com/) and average at
least 200 a day since the virus that blasted Exchange/stupid users early
last year.  Until very recently it had about a 100% success rate (both
in catching the crap and ignoring the valid).  I now get maybe one or
two "slips" a week.  No idea what my company pays for it, but it's worth
every penny.
	On a side note - this """service""" was originally only offered
to the execs here.  I started to forward every spam to the helpdesk
saying "please block" (at 8:00 every morning this meant about 15 minutes
of work minimum) and after about 3 days they put me on Postini.