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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:18:30 -0400 (AST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com>
Cc:        'FreeBSD ISP List' <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Recommendation for "antivirus" software (MTA is qmail)
Message-ID:  <20040129221626.Y6922@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1AmLjJ-000JYf-TY@psknet.com>
References:  <E1AmLjJ-000JYf-TY@psknet.com>

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Troy Settle wrote:

>
> Andy,
>
> I take exception to your statements.  I fit neither under A nor B.
>
> I figured it like this...  I could spend $35k/year + to hire a postmaster to
> keep up the spam/virus battle on our mail server, or I could pay Postini
> less than $10k/year to do the same.

I take exception to this ... I run >150 seperate mail servers, each
configured either with/without anti-spam/virus software on it, and spend
*maybe* an hour a month worrying about it.  Anti-virus signatures are all
auto-updated (in my case, 4 times a day), and anti-spam software doesn't
change that often ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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