RE: Anyone got an effective anti-spam and anti-virus regime?

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:43, Blue Tapp Scheffer wrote:
> Wow if he is getting only TEN a day, he is VERY fortunate!!!  His request is
> of course ridiculous and he'll not find ANY host who can do what he wants
> but you can't tell him this using those exact words obviously.  I would VERY
> NICELY and tactfully try to educate him about spam.   Spam is a scourge to
> EVERYONE of us...costing the world business economy BILLIONS of dollars in
> lost efficiency and lost bandwidth every year.  There are a lot of spam
> killer applications out there but anything that would completely kill ALL of
> the spam will also filter out much legitimate email from his customers.
> Hopefully he will 'get it' and you won't lose your customer.  :-)
> My $.02
> ~ Blue
> 


10 a day, that's funny, I probably get about 10 every 30 minutes. Even
if you try to control it server side with something like spam assassin 
you run the risk of actually censoring everyones email. Just because
user A does not want email about Viagra does not mean User B does not.
if they're that concerned with the 10 SPAM emails a day they get perhaps
one of the very affordable clients side SPAM elimination apps will
suffice for them. It would cost less then the set up fees they' will
incur switching hosting providers..



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Mike Kear
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: 'hwg-techniques forum'
> Subject: Anyone got an effective anti-spam and anti-virus regime?
> 
> 
> 
> I got a message from one of my clients today, whose web site I host, and
> here's what he said  ... I'd like to know if anyone's got any effective
> measures to do what he wants .....
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> 
> [quote]
> Could you ask your hosting company to virus-detect the emails and stop all
> these sex emails coming to us almost 10 emails every day. If they can not do
> this I have to move my hosting from you. In past few weeks we have lost our
> server due to infected emails and down time has been 30% this is not
> satisfactory.
> [/quote]
> 
> 
> 
> My initial reaction is to tell him he's living in lala-land if he thinks he
> can stop spam, specially since his website has his email address on it in a
> dozen places, but before I did that I thought I'd check and see what you
> guys think ..
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> 
> Cheers,
> Michael Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> AFP Webworks.
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