Esther Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > ***If you could get your CIO (or top management) to understand one thing, > just ONE thing, about fighting spam, what would it be?***
It's a moving target. > And the follow-up: why did you pick that one item? Because top management (not my current, thank goodness, but former bosses) seem to think there's a silver bullet for everything, something you can buy, set, and forget. It doesn't work that way: it's an arms race with lowlifes who have a *lot* of time to devote to studying our spam-fighting tactics and working around them. There are some great packages out there with some adaptability built in (e.g. SpamAssassin with cron-automated rule updates and the use of a selection of RBLs), but unless you outsource the whole thing, you need someone to spend time tweaking and improving regularly, or what worked really well this month will work only so-so next month, and not at all a year down the road - or else what performed just fine last month will be crawling on its knees this month because of the traffic increase. "Anne Bennett is a senior system administrator in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada." Anne. -- Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Sysadmin, ENCS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 514 848-2424 x2285 _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
