OT: obscene message sizes and idiocy - a solution!

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 08:54:26AM -0800, Alan Mazuti wrote:
> Would you share the URL to this company.

Sure. It is http://www.mxlogic.com

And I mis-spoke. We chose the "MX Logic Ultimate Defense(sm)" service,
which is $2.25/mo. per person, not $2.00/mo. Still, I pay $50/mo. total.

Tom
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> Podnar
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> Subject: Re: OT: obscene message sizes and idiocy - a solution!
> 
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:49:58AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > I briefly tell the whole story in the following URL, so I can make this
> > short and sweet:
> > 
> >      http://members.iglou.com/fairlite/flmailsizer.html
> > 
> > Suffice it to say that my days of people sending me -unsolicited- email
> with
> > attachments ranging up to >900KB are -done-.  And they can be for you as
> > well if you have the right tools and want to use what I'm providing
> freely.
> > 
> > *growls in frustration*
> > *codes*
> > *snorts in satisfaction*
> > 
> > mark->
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> 
> Mark has solved part of his problem with a nice solution.
> 
> Since we're off-topic, I thought I'd share with you how we solved ours.
> 
> We've been around "forever" in internet years, and when that happens you
> have email addresses that have been around forever, and get mountains of
> spam.
> 
> Our issues in looking at in-house solutions were...
> 1) You still have to take time to manage / update them.
> 2) all of the incoming spam would still have to come in across the T-1 line,
> then get filtered.
> 
> One of the things I didn't want to do was restrict email to only known
> parties through one of the "click here and type in the almost invisible
> letters and numbers to authenticate yourself" solutions, which have been
> discussed here recently.
> 
> The solution for us was an outside service that handles all of the
> spam and virus filtering and detection before hitting our network
> connection, and that is constantly improved and updated by the vendor.
> 
> We chose the MX Logic service. After using it for a few months, I can
> tell you we're thrilled.
> 
> The good news is that it does a great job of filtering and there is a
> nice browser interface for checking your spam box, training it to
> release messages it considers spam and you don't, etc. for, are you
> ready, $2.00 PER PERSON per month. This is per human being, not per
> mailbox, so aliases don't count.
> 
> The only bad news is that they have a $50 per month minimum invoice
> for their top level service, and since I have less than 25 people I
> pay the minimum.
> 
> But this may be the best $50 per month we've ever spent. Instead of
> walking in every morning to 250 emails, I now have 5 - 10, and I don't
> have to constantly manage in house tools.
> 
> All the MX records point to MX Logic servers, so that problem is also
> handled in case we go down.
> 
> Anyway, I didn't realize these services were so inexpensive until we
> spent a little time on the problem.
> -- 
> Tom
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