Re: anti-spam software

["Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>]

 We use Barracuda anti-spam appliances, and they have worked great for
us. 


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Brian Basgen
Information Security
Pima Community College


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> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Maria Iano
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:25 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] anti-spam software
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> I am hoping to pick your brains about commercial anti-spam solutions.
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> The Math Department has roughly 1000 user accounts and currently uses
> SpamAssassin, as well as many of the spam filtering options in
> postfix such as header and body checks and DNS blacklists. Our users
> mark messages as spam and we feed them to the Bayesian database for
> SpamAssassin. Nonetheless, a lot of spam still gets through. So we
> are looking into commercial anti-spam software. Has anyone else gone
> the route of purchasing a commercial solution? If so, how did it work
> out for you? Has anyone else compiled a review of the different
> choices and how they compare? If so, I would love to see it. If you
> know of any commercial anti-spam providers that offer deep education
> discounts that would be good to know also.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Maria Iano
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> iano () math umd edu
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