Antispam - empowering employees

Tue Jul 15 10:51:06 PDT 2003

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:46:47PM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> If you treat your users like fools, you can find yourself without users.

Indeed.

> Windows, in a large part, has replaced Unix because people feel
> that it's approachable and, in a large way, someone with not so
> much knowledge of computers can put up a Windows Server and install
> a couple packages and have Exchange for cheap.  They think it
> scales; they think it's cheap; they think it's secure.  They are
> wrong on all counts.  But I have yet to see a friendly, say, IMAP
> server, even if they get Unix up, targetted at sites with < 5000 users.
> That's fewer that 2% of the businesses out there.

I thought you were crashing and burning for a minute -- but you recovered
nicely. ;)

I'll cut to the chase and just say that here, we use Spamassassin with a web
interface where people can adjust their scores.

I can't see how it could be any other way.

 -Scott
(the CTO at Sonic.net)