RE: Good software against spam

From: Gene Gomez (gegomez@tycoint.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "Gene Gomez" <gegomez@tycoint.com>
To: "Michael van Zwieten" <MvanZwieten@flcities.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:42:47 -0700

I don't know if this is a good metric. I could easily say that I've got the
most effective filter in the world because "of 2400 incoming emails, it
dumped all of them"! Of course, in that case, my system isn't really
functioning at all because I'm not getting any of the mail I was supposed
to. :)
So...how many of the emails you filtered were false positives...?

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael van Zwieten [mailto:MvanZwieten@flcities.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:00 PM
To: 'Jean-Francois Bourdeau'
Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Good software against spam

Hey JF,

I would recommend looking at Praetor from CMS, Inc. It can sit on your
Exchange Server (or standalone) and is able to make use of the RBL, in
addition to the massive amounts of customizable filters... This thing has
pays for itself within a couple of days if you do a cost comparison of time
lots due to employees reading/deleting spam. We had 78,000 emails attempt
to come in during the month of June... only 24,000 were accepted, and 54,000
rejected because of RBL and filters. Highly recommended!

http://www.cmsconnect.com

Take care,
Mike

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