Re: Spam

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Re: Spam

I spent my first three years as a Lotus Admin spending way too much time trying to improve spam filtering\blocking. The DNS Blacklists do work pretty well combined with some other built in Lotus anti-spam features. You can consult the Lotus Anti Spam guide. But the spammers always find new methods to get around these features. Then you get some false positives that some upper level executive made a big deal about.

We finally switched to Postini. I highly recommend it or a similar service. Basically, it's outsourcing your spam filtering to an organization that focuses on that and does it well. It works great. It's easy to implement. After that, you rarely need to do anything besides create new user accounts. The cost is much less than appliances as well.

And I got more positive comments from users about implementing it than from any other project I worked on. It resulted in good PR for our department.

Regards,

Greg

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