[wplug] Spam question

[smk]

My previous employer used postini and offers it to its clients (an ISP).  
I was always impressed by the service and thought it was a great product.


On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Vanco, Don wrote:

> > 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.
> 
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