The article I wrote about mailscanner has been published

[Julian Field]

Julian Field wrote:
> DAve wrote:
>> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>> (IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine
>>> discussing some of the hottest information security topics.
>>>
>>> Issue 5 was just released. Download it from:
>>> http://www.insecuremag.com
>>
>> "Individual or small businesses will usually rely on
>> the usually not-very-effective ISP spam filters or try
>> client-side software."
> For "small businesses", include Microsoft in the list. They use 
> manually, yes I said manually, maintained black-lists plus Outlook's 
> spam filter. They deliver all their spam to the desktop and then try 
> to filter it there!
>
> Read this if you want a laugh:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/security/messaginghygienewp.mspx 
>
>
To be fair to them, they have changed this document rather a lot since 
they first published it back in April, and they now have some 
spam-scoring based system on Exchange.

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