At 02:49 PM 2/2/2004, Gavin Scott wrote:
>In December we signed up with Message Labs (www.messagelabs.com) to have
>them filter our incoming mail for spam and viruses.  As a result, I have not
>gotten a single virus message in over two months, even though more than
>1,000 have tried to reach me.  Message Labs spam filtering is good but not
>amazing (it's basically Spam Assasin and you may occasionally need to
>"white-list" people you want to get mail from) but their virus detection
>(even for unknown emerging viruses) has been perfect so far.  The cost for
>our small number of users is on the order of $100/month, which is
>cheap-like-dirt for the elimination of gigabytes of virus email and at least
>a good a job of spam filtering as we could do ourselves, plus we don't have
>to waste time managing the whole mess and keeping up with the daily changes
>in blacklist services, etc.  It's definitely worth looking at a service like
>this if you're being inundated by virus traffic.

We've signed up with a spam- and virus-blocking service called
(appropriately enough) Spam Stops Here (http://www.spamstopshere.com). I've
been very happy with it - it's blocked an astounding amount of crap sent
our way. It's made email usable again It costs $19/month for up to 10
users, and goes up from there.

>Turning off OT messages has reduced the traffic/noise level of 3000-L to the
>point that it's usable again.

Yup.

--
Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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