Dealing with suspected spam

[Randal, Phil]

4.75 and 9 here.

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of sandrews at andrewscompanies.com
> Sent: 17 May 2006 11:50
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: RE: Dealing with suspected spam
> 
> Wow, 7 and 11?  I'm down into the 4.5 and 8 level...sheesh. 
> 
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Andoni
> Auzmendi
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:42 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Dealing with suspected spam
> 
> You wouldn't like to spam your users with spam notifications :-)
> 
> We quarantine and not deliver to users high scoring spam messages.
> 
> We quarantine, modify subject and deliver to users low scoring spam
> messages.
> 
> We have set the threshold accordingly so we get no false positives in
> the high scoring spam area but we can have few in the low scoring spam
> area. Our values are: 7 for low score spam and 11 for high score spam.
> 
> We also get from users messages not tag as spam and those rare false
> positives to whitelist, blacklist or add new SA rules.
> 
> The above is working for us. We currently have 700 users and receive
> 25000 emails a day.
> 
> Andoni
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of James
> Page
> Sent: 17 May 2006 10:53
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Dealing with suspected spam
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Not sure this is really on topic for this forum, but anyhoo....
> 
> What are people's opinions on dealing with spam in a corporate
> environment? Is it best to quarantine and advise original sender? Tag
> and deliver? Quarantine high scoring and then tag and deliver below a
> certain score? What strategies do you use?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> James
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