This Week: Spam-fighting techniques

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Published by SearchDomino.com  August 16, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: Spam-fighting techniques >> Featured Topic: Bizarre IT stories >> Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tony Higham, Domino and WebSphere Integration Site Exclusives: >>Lotus showcases future collaboration tools >>R5 support to end in Sept. '05 >>Lotus, Microsoft IM strategies offer mixed messages Tips of the Week: >>Java theory and practice: The exceptions debate >>Preventing spam mail in Notes/Domino 6 >>LDAP, Domino and Windows: Making it work >> Site Highlights: White Paper: Preemptive e-mail security White Paper: How spammers are stealing your e-mail directory Tip Contest: Submit a tip and win $100!  From the Editor: by Christine Polewarczyk, Editor We have a great expert webcast coming up next week with the authors of the book The Anti-Spam Toolkit, Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott and Mike Erwin. Paul Wolfe is an independent information security consultant for Fortune 500 companies, law enforcement and government. Charlie Scott, CISSP, CCNP, is an information security analyst for the City of Austin, Texas. And Mike Erwin, CISSP, is President and Founder of Symbiot, Inc., an information security company specializing in intelligent security management and advanced risk metrics. In addition to co-authoring The Anti-Spam Toolkit, Wolfe and Scott also wrote Snort for Dummies. During the broadcast, our presenters will provide an overview of the latest spam-fighting techniques, and how effective they are in the real-world. You'll learn about how client, server and outsourced solutions work, their pros and cons, as well as how technologies such as blacklists, Bayesian learning and 'challenge/response' factor in. After their presentation, our speakers will answer your specific spam-related questions in a live question and answer segment. If you would like to ask a question of Erwin, Scott and Wolfe in advance (so it's at the top of the audience Q&A queue), send it in an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. And last but not least, at the end of this webcast, we are going to select one lucky attendee at random to receive a free copy of their book, The Anti-Spam Toolkit. Register here to attend this live webcast.. Hope to see you then! Have a great week, everyone. Regards, Christine  Featured Topic: Bizarre IT stories by Christine Polewarczyk, Editor Having a stressful day? Time for a coffee break. Go grab a cup of Joe, then sit back, relax and take in a few of these amusing IT tales. They're sure to help lighten your mood. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert: Tony Higham Category: Domino and WebSphere Integration Dear Tony: An enterprise customer is asking if Domino R5 and WebSphere Application Server 5.02 can implement SSO using Novell eDirectory (NDS) as its LDAP source. Have you ever encountered anyone doing that? Click here to read Tony Higham's expert response or ask a question of your own. Site Exclusives: >> Lotus showcases future collaboration tools IBM Lotus recently previewed its collaboration tools of the future, including offerings to help workers stay organized, ease calendar management and execute business processes. >> R5 support to end in Sept. '05 Lotus will pull the plug on support for Notes and Domino R5 in September 2005, pledging to back the product for five more months than it had planned. >> Lotus, Microsoft IM strategies offer mixed messages Microsoft hopes interoperability deals with AOL and Yahoo will help the software giant take over the enterprise IM space, but its top competitor, Lotus, says interoperability is overrated. Tip of the Week: Java theory and practice: The exceptions debate Most of the advice on the use of exceptions in the Java language suggests that checked exceptions should be preferred in any case where an exception conceivably might be caught. This suggestion is encouraged by both the language design (in that the compiler forces you to list in the method signature all checked exceptions that might be thrown) and in early writings on style and usage. Recently, several prominent writers have started to come to the position that unchecked exceptions may have more of a place in good Java class design than previously thought. In this article, Brian Goetz looks at the pros and cons of using unchecked exceptions. Preventing spam mail in Notes/Domino 6 Notes/Domino 6 includes several important features that help prevent spam mail from entering your organization and reaching your users. This article discusses these features. We start with an overview of spam and general techniques for preventing it. Then we examine in detail Notes/Domino 6 antispam features and how you can use these to help minimize the impact of unsolicited e-mail in your environment. LDAP, Domino and Windows: Making it work In this Q&A, Michael Lazar, SearchDomino.com's resident expert for our Domino Administration Ask the Experts category, answers a handful of member questions about using LDAP in a mixed Domino and Windows environment. >> Check out all our tips.  Site Highlights White Paper: Preemptive e-mail security Learn how one IT professional eliminated spam and viruses and improved his e-mail security and productivity. Read "Preemptive Email Security: How Enterprise Rent-A-Car reduces spam " today. Get it here. White Paper: How spammers are stealing your e-mail directory Read the white paper, "The silent killer: How spammers are stealing your e-mail directory," to understand the threats associated with DHA attacks, how to identify an attack and what you can do to protect your e-mail directory. Download it. Tip Contest: Submit a tip and win $100! Submit your tip today for a chance to win. Share your Notes/Domino know-how and you could win $100 cash! We're looking for your best tips, tricks, timesavers, code and advice. Your tip will be voted on by your SearchDomino.com peers, and the highest rated tip will win the grand prize of a hundred bucks! This new monthly tip will teach you how to manage spam and keep your systems secure. Enter your e-mail and start receiving Spam and Security Tip. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription. BlackBerry webcast Attend tomorrow's webcast to learn the basics about BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This session concentrates on the server maintenance and day-to-day admin procedures. Register here. ITKnowledgeExchange Complete your profile today and start communicating with your Domino peers all around the world. Share ideas, knowledge and advice on topics that are important to you at ITKnowledgeExchange, a new SearchDomino.com feature currently in beta. Sign up now.   A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Contact us: SearchDomino Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 This e-newsletter is published by SearchDomino.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. 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