[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Cathryn Goodwin
Princeton University uses ProofPoint - and Spam is something I never see as a result. Cathryn -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Hegley, Douglas Sent: Fri 1/25/2008 3:26 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam Posti

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Hegley, Douglas
Postini is great, although typically a bit pricey. Compare it to ProofPoint, we have had tremendous success with that solution (after comparison testing with several top of the line alternatives). Have a good weekend. Douglas Douglas Hegley The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sent from my GoodLink sy

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Jacobson
I second Ari's recommendation of Postini. Another benefit is that Postini is a hosted service that screens and catches spam off-site before it hits your mail server. Thus it helps conserve both bandwidth and network disk space. Steve -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [ma

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Ari Davidow
We are using postini (http://www.postini.com) as our main spam filter. It does two important jobs for us. First, it gets almost all spam. Second, it assures people receiving *our* email that we are not spammers. (Our IT person was getting very, very tired of trying to figure out why people at this

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Tamara Georgick
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 re

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Holly Witchey
This inquiry from our network manager here at the CMA. Anybody got any good solutions for curing the spam problem? We are getting spam slammed in a huge way. Any and all suggestions will be thoughtfully received and the provider of the best answer will receive (in addition to our eternal grati

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread Goral, Becky
We use a third party solution: http://www.securence.com/ that is very inexpensive solution considering the amount of spam out there. Becky Milwaukee Art Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Holly Witchey Sent: Friday, Janua

[MCN-L] Copyright Officer Description

2008-01-25 Thread Lesley Ellen Harris
And I'd be curious to see any descriptions of duties for a Copyright Officer in any sort of institution. Thanks. Lesley Lesley Ellen Harris lesley at copyrightlaws.com - Original Message - From: "Misunas, Marla" To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv" Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008

[MCN-L] Coll Mgr job descriptions

2008-01-25 Thread Zogg, Del
Lynne, Attached is my job description for my position here at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is somewhat confusing because collections management isn't in the job title, but that is what I do - for works on paper and photography. Del Zogg Works on Paper Study Center Museum of Fine Arts, Ho

[MCN-L] Spam, Spam Glorious Spam

2008-01-25 Thread David Marsh
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 ab

[MCN-L] Webcasting

2008-01-25 Thread Leonard Steinbach
Perian, I took the liberty of forwarding your query to Alan Levine, Chief Tech Officer of New Media Consortium which has been at the forefront of Second Life programming for higher education. [NMC is also responsible for Pachyderm and has a considerable and growing museum membership.] Here is his

[MCN-L] Webcasting

2008-01-25 Thread lbritt...@southern-ute.nsn.us
I'm looking for a good sample of a collections manager job description with qualifications--can you help? Lynn Brittner So. Ute Cultural Center & Museum

[MCN-L] Coll Mgr job descriptions

2008-01-25 Thread Misunas, Marla
Hi Lynn, If you're looking for collection management (as opposed to collection info mgt), I would start with the Registrar's Committee of AAM: http://www.rcaam.org/ You could also try WMA's Registrars' Committee http://rcwest.invisionplus.net/ Best, Marla Misunas Collections Information Manager

[MCN-L] Webcasting

2008-01-25 Thread Ari Davidow
If you are streaming something live, I'm not sure what the good options currently are (although I ran a Helix server for many years and its server footprint--other than the streams bandwidth--I remember as minimal). If you are streaming something that isn't live, then use of flash (for which you wo

[MCN-L] Webcasting

2008-01-25 Thread Perian Sully
Dear Len and Alan: Thanks so much for your excellent info! We do indeed wish to use prerecorded audio and video content (if this experiment is a success, we'll look into live broadcasts later). I think my confusion about whether it needs to be a stream or not stems from Second Life's documentat