Re: anti-spam software

["Cody, James" <jccody () GENESEE EDU>]

We use Roaring Penguin's CanIT. We like it it works well and each user can opt in or out.

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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Kovarik
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:10 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] anti-spam software

NU uses the Sophos' PureMessage solution, appears to work rather well.
I'm lead to believe there are some discounts available for higher ed.

info here: http://www.it.northwestern.edu/security/eds/

Dave Kovarik, ISS/C
Northwestern University
Office: (847) 467-5930

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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Maria Iano
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:25 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.

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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