My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam

[Steve Campbell]

Matt,

Same here. We do both newspaper domains, the main corporation domain, a 
few outside domains which want it all or just part of it.

We have used MS/SA for quite some time now. Every once in a while, a 
chance to save a few dollars pops up, and because it is cheaper than 
some other offer they have looked into, they think they are getting a 
bargain.They keep forgetting they don't pay me that much.

I just don't think they are really thinking this through very well. Of 
course, I'm getting pretty old, I don't have any backup here, and they 
might be thinking down the road a little.

Steve

Matt Hayes wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Where I work we do email scanning for spam and viruses.  We do this for
> quite a few clients.  We do it for email domains we host and we do it
> for email domains that just want the scanning done then hand it off to
> their host.
>
> Works quite well.
>
> -Matt
>
> Steve Campbell wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Martin.
>>
>> I'm sort of trying to convince whoever is behind this that giving up
>> control of our spam and virus checking is a bad idea. We're a newspaper,
>> and actually publish two papers, a morning and evening paper. Not only
>> do the reporters get information by email, but advertisers send ads in
>> using email. The deadlines issue just won't fly with offsite email
>> management. At least that's what I've been trying to tell them everytime
>> this crops up.
>>
>> Either I'm doing a very bad job of handling this, or they just want me
>> for something else around here. I fight this about once every 6 months.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Martin.Hepworth wrote:
>>     
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Hmm looks like cotentcatcher ONLY does spam - no mention whatsoever of
>>> viruses!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Martin Hepworth
>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>> Solid State Logic
>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin.Hepworth
>>>> Sent: 30 October 2007 08:48
>>>> To: MailScanner discussion
>>>> Subject: RE: My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> If you're looking for managed hosting the two I'd suggest are Postini
>>>> (now
>>>> owned by google) and Messagelabs.
>>>>
>>>> Never heard of content catcher.
>>>>
>>>> Fsl.com also do an appliance/software based installer that's based on
>>>> MailScanner. Again this is managed by them so there little for you to
>>>> worry about.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Martin Hepworth
>>>> Snr Systems Administrator
>>>> Solid State Logic
>>>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>>>
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>>>>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve Campbell
>>>>> Sent: 29 October 2007 20:28
>>>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>> Subject: My boss wants to try out a service provider for spam
>>>>>
>>>>> My boss informed me that we might want to try out a provider of spam
>>>>> content blocking. Has anyone ever dealt with ContentCatcher?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any ideas, experiences, and the like.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Campbell
>>>>>
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