Increased Volumes Of Spam

[Jeramy Eling]

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From: uxbod [mailto:uxbod at splatnix.net] 
Sent: 16 January 2007 09:03
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Increased Volumes Of Spam
Importance: Low


What checks are you running ? We receive ~150k messages per day and
block ~98% of the SPAM.

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:51 -0000, "Jeramy Eling"
<Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We've been running Mail Scanner here for a few years now and it's 
> brilliant, however more recently we are starting to see more and more 
> spam getting to our desktop users. The spam seems to be made up of 
> random subjects and have a random string of words at the bottom of the

> messages. I'm just curious to see how other people are dealing with 
> this sort of spam and stopping it from getting through to their 
> desktops. Currently we receive about 2800 emails a day into our 
> company and about 50% of that gets stopped as spam but still a lot 
> gets through to our users.
> 
> Any thoughts/ideas/comments would be much appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Jez
> 
> 
>
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