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Exchange internal email spam
From: kevin.rouse () mail va gov (Rouse, Kevin)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:20:17 -0500
I'm currently dealing with a bit of internal email spam. Though our system can handle it, the impact is very large. I'm looking for and exchange add-on that would have the ability to screen spam types of emails. The only utilities we have currently deletes the mail after it is delivered. Out of almost 100,000 users, one thread of well written spam has generated several terabytes of email. I realize it's a user education problem as well, but think about it, only 30+ users out of 100,000 used "reply to all" in addressing the spam threads. Most of these people are only replying to the distribution list to ask that their name be removed from that distribution list. Then you get the others "replying to all" trying to educate the others not to "reply to all" as he just did. Each email weighs in at 1-4 meg due to the size of the distribution list and how many times that distribution list appears in the email. 99.9 percent of the users are properly educated, but it only takes a few to really generate some trash. Just think it's not even a Melissa virus problem, but it's nearly as bad in the larger email systems. Any help? An exchange add-on for screening spam email? Thanks, Kevin Rouse LAN / WAN Systems Security
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