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Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers
From: "Jefferson, Ronnie V." <RVJefferson () ST-AUG EDU>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:06:17 -0500
thanks! -----Original Message----- From: JS Gluck [mailto:jsgluck () SYR EDU] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:08 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Hi - We, Syracuse University, have started to use Brightmail's anti-SPAM product with tremendous success. We automatically delete all SPAM and then forward the remaining email through Trend Micro's anti-virus filter. We run both applications on a Sun Solaris box using the open source sendmail milter interface. The installation of the system took a little time, but the support burdens are minimal. It seems that we average 70% SPAM and 1.5% email viruses, except during the sobig fiasco, during a normal day. We fluctuate between 200,000 to 400,000 mail messages per day. Jenny Director, Network and System Services At 06:06 PM 12/1/2003, Joe St Sauver wrote:
Hi Ronnie, #SPAM is an ever present problem across college campuses and we have our
own
#issues as well where this issue is concerned. I know that there are quite
a
#few software packages available that may adequately address the problem,
but
#at the same time might be a bit pricey. Is there anyone out there that has #used SPAM software that has worked well for their respective campus, is #fairly cost effective, and doesn't take an Army of security engineers to #setup and install? You can read about the near-zero out-of-pocket cost DNSBL-based solution we use at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/spamwar/ (PPT and PDF formats provided). Couple of changes since that presentation this summer: -- the Wirehub/Easynet DNSBL has discontinued operation effective December
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(use SORBS or NJABL instead), and -- a new extremely effective DNSBL, the CBL (see http://cbl.abuseat.org/ ) has become available. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a note off list and I'd be glad to visit with you about those concerns. Regards, Joe St Sauver (joe () oregon uoregon edu) University of Oregon Computing Center ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
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- New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers H. Morrow Long (Nov 25)
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- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers David Escalante (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers H. Morrow Long (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Jefferson, Ronnie V. (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Joe St Sauver (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Dave Koontz (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Jefferson, Ronnie V. (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers H. Morrow Long (Dec 01)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers JS Gluck (Dec 02)
- Re: New SANS Discount Programs to Educational Centers Jefferson, Ronnie V. (Dec 02)