We've also got a Barracuda and I have been pretty happy with it. Aside from catching probably 98% of the spam, it's easy to configure and has some decent reporting and search features. Although many spam blockers have these features, I also like having the ability to check the incoming mail recipients against a valid user list and to customize "white" and "black" lists.
Tamara Georgick Director of Information Technology Washington State Historical Society tgeorgick at wshs.wa.gov 360.561.3982 Tamara -----Original Message----- From: David Marsh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:45 PM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam Hi, people... Holly Witchey [hwitchey at clevelandart.org] wrote: > This inquiry from our network manager here at the CMA. Anybody got any > good solutions for curing the spam problem... We went with a Barracuda 200 hardware spam firewall. http://www.barracudanetworks.com $1,500 to buy, and about $350 a year for service, if memory serves. Once it's plugged into your network you can forget about it. Frankly ...we were more than happy to pay to get some relief! Solved the Spam problem for us. I particularly appreciated that it required near-zero work from me. I'd wasted too many hours ineffectually tweaking SpamAssassin and apparently didn't have time to become an adequately-skilled spam filtering expert. I have other things to do. There's the subscription fee for the service, and Barracuda networks continually update the thing. Very happy with it. Hope that helps, David M =========================================== David Marsh Chief Technician & System Administrator H.R. MacMillan Space Centre 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9 E sysadmin at hrmacmillanspacecentre.com T (604) 738 7827 ext. 229 C (604) 813 9667 F (604) 736 5665 ? Please consider the environment before printing e-mails =========================================== _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
