[ale] Spam Blocking Alternatives

[Chris Fowler]

That is roughly $200 per employee. If it keeps them from having to clean
out their inboxes every morning and gains that much more productive time
is it worth the investment?

Let's say it takes 10 minutes each am to clean out your mail box.

10 * 5 = 50 minutes per week.
(50 * 52) / 60 = 43+ hours per year
43 * 100 = 4300 hours totally saved per year
If every employee made $10/hr then you'd save about $43k 
the first year.





On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:47, John Allgood wrote:
> We have about 100 employees.
> 
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> >How many people are in your organization?
> >
> >On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:41, John Allgood wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Puremessage allowed the user to manager their own quarantine. If 
> >>something was blocked they could approve within that interface or 
> >>receive a email digest and approve that way. The amount of spam received 
> >>here is unreal.  Over a 24 hour period purmessage blocked over 100 spam 
> >>messages just to me. The price was about $20,000 dollars this included 
> >>spam,virus, and policy management. Everything ran on linux it was 
> >>developed using Sendmail or Postfix, Perl,  and Postgres. That is why I 
> >>liked it so well. And it did a good job. Also allowed the users to have 
> >>control of their own email. Plus it didn't have to sit down and right a 
> >>bunch of recipes. I don't have time for that.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Chris Fowler wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>What was the price?  Will it block enough that your employees will not
> >>>be distracted by the spam?  
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:35, John Allgood wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hello
> >>>>
> >>>>We are looking into switching from our current MailScanner + SpamAssassin Gateway set-up over to a more flexible commercial software package. 
> >>>>
> >>>>We just got done evaluating Sophos PureMessage, but it was more than we wanted to spend. The Sophos software was blocking 98% of spam but it is more tailored to the enterprise market. 
> >>>>
> >>>>Any recommendations would be very welcome
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks
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