Spam Filtering Services

Spam is something we all fight every day as e-mail users.  Filtering thru hundreds of junk e-mails to decipher those few "good" e-mails out of the mix.  Now this is just for your e-mail account.  Think of it from a network standpoint.  Think about a web server with 100 domains and on average 15 active email accounts per domain.  This creates huge loads on web servers and requires a constant careful watch to ensure no web server gets overloaded.  Spam is the single most intensive waster of valuable server resources.  So what do we do to help combat spam?

There are a few things we do here at AJT.  The first thing is we have RBL's running on all servers.  RBL stands for "Real-time Black List" and blocks known spammers IP addresses.  Today alone, one of our RBL's on one of our servers captured 38,476 spam emails.  The second thing we do is run a program called SpamAssasin which scores, tags and deletes known spam.  The third thing is called grey-listing and is still in beta test, but this will work like an RBL only a little better.

This helps - but what about us that dont want to see any spam?

We refer many clients to a company located here in Florida called AppRiver, LLC (www.appriver.com).  For around $500 per year, AppRiver will "sanitize" ALL email that comes in.  Each client we have that is using AppRiver just loves the "spam free" lifestyle.  At first $500 per year might sound expensive, but add up lost time that you and your employees are wasting looking thru spam all day.  Studies show that Spam costs a small company (10-15 employees) on average $2300 per year in lost time/revenue.

Why do we push AppRiver so much?  Because we use them ourselves!  They provide top notch support around the clock and literally capture 99.9% of all spam before you ever see it.  If you have any questions we are always happy to answer them - just contact our support team and we will be happy to assist.  If you are interested in trying out a spam filtering company, AppRiver does offer a full 30 day FREE trial - no questions asked, no credit card required.  If you like it - you keep it and pay.  If you dont like it (unlikely) you simply cancel.  We also encourage you to shop around for other "spam filtering services" to gather pricing.  AJT only can recommend AppRiver because it is what we use (and know).

We hope this information helps.  Perhaps someday all spammers will go away - but until then, we will just have services in place to block them.