Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 2001/11

From: Tom.Henson@-----.com
Subj: RE: [kl] [AD] Email services
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:59:28 -0500

As the email administrator for my firm I can concur that mail should be
filtered.

I routinely filter about 2000 messages a day of spam, and our virus scanning
software (we use three different ones) traps about 50 infected messages a
day. All of this is done before the user even sees it.

Pease of mind to our users is important. That's what I get paid to do, worry
about spam and viruses so they don't have to.

Tom Henson

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Higgins [mailto:donna@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] [AD] Email services

Oh, I forgot to mention - the virus filter also filters spam. Not 100% of
course; some will always get through. But he's blocking thousands of
messages a week. I get an average of maybe one spam a day at my home
address, while I get 20-30 a day (more on weekends) at my unfiltered work
address. (I'm keeping count because I'm trying to persuade my company to
filter their mail through my BF's system, and they seem more concerned with
spam than viruses (because everyone updates their Norton once a month, so
why do we need any more protection than that? Fools. But that's a whole
other rant. :-)

- Donna

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