Major features?

[Gerry Doris]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:02, Julian Field wrote:
> Here's an initial list. What have I forgotten?
>
> Supports any combination of over 20 popular virus scanners, including
> both commercial and open-source scanners
> Supports all the most popular mail systems
> Excellent anti-spam capabilities, using many different tools such as
> SpamAssassin, Razor, DCC etc.
> Protection from dangerous file types, both by name and by content
> Protection from tricks such as filename-extension hiding
> Advanced heuristic "phishing" fraud detector
> Mail sanitising including disarming of the most dangerous HTML tags
> Content filtering, looking for keywords and phrases
> Runs on all Unix and Linux platforms leveraging both security and
> reliability
> Easy installation and configuration but retaining a high level of
> customisation
> Can be customised to any arbitrary group of addresses including
> per-domain and per-user
> Highly active support and developement, average response to new threats
> is a few hours
> Highly cost effective, can implement any security policy for a very low cost
> Protection from pornographic spam email, an essential feature for schools
>
> I've got quite a bit of space (half a page). So please add others, I can
> always trim them to save space.
> --
>
> --
> Julian Field

I'm not sure what you want to use the flyer for but I'd be wary about a
long laundry list of features.  Even the best of your "enlightened"
followers will likely have their eyes glaze over when presented with a
mass of text.

I'd try and net out the really big ones...something like

- protects the enterprise against virus, trojan and "phishing" attacks
- virtually eliminates spam using SpamAssassin, DCC, Razor and Pyzor
- screens out pornography and other malware attacks
- supports all major servers including sendmail, postfix and qmail
- manage using whitelists, blacklists and customized rules
- quarantine suspicious mail
- content and attachment filtering - highly configurable
- available for all popular Linux and Unix platforms
- available online free of charge - over 18 billion downloads!!!
- professional installation and support available for commercial users
- a complete list of a features is available at our website www......

and I suggest you fill up the rest of the space with some screenshots of
mailscanner-mrtg and mailwatch.  We may not all like to read feature
lists but we do like pictures!  Those packages really catch people's
attention.




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Gerry Doris <gdoris at rogers.com>

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