Firenet's New Anti-SPAM / Virus System
Posted: 25th Jun, 2003 By: MarkJ
Firenet has today announced the introduction of their new anti-SPAM (junk e-mail) and virus filtering system, which the ISP hopes to see clean up the junk and save money on bandwidth:
You will be pleased to know, that Firenet after 2 years of programming, testing and retesting have finally completed the new ANTI SPAM servers. This makes Firenet's servers the safest, greatest free email server there is, with Anti-virus, unlimited bandwidth, unlimted email accounts and web-based mail that you can check anywhere in the world.
They are now fully active working on 3 main servers.
These are
* firenet.uk.com
* mail.angelfire.ws
* mail.firenet.uk.net
Taken from this, a lot of you will see a massive reduction in emails, do not panic, it is all junk mail. This will also make these servers work much faster, as they havent got as much work to do from now on.
Please do not be concerned about this; we are only deleting Spam-like emails that contain certain aspects and credentials of Spam. These are,
* Bright colours.
* Pornographic words.
* Mailing list that goes nowhere.
* Big pictures with links to known Spam sites
* Have key words that are typical of Spam.
* Swear Words.
* Unsubscribe that links to more porn or Spam.
* Have several other customers of Firenets on the same TO Field.
These are taken into account and given a score, sometimes Spam will come through but this is very limited to about 1 in 1000 Spam emails.
We have decided not to allow any customer to receive Spam whether they wish to or not. Already we are receiving complaints about customers not getting Spam, and that they require to be exempt from ANTI-SPAM screening.
However we will not allow this, as this has cost Firenet thousands of pounds per year in wasted bandwidth.
The final servers mail4.angelfire.ws and mail5.angelfire.ws will be completed by August 2003 and this will be using load balancing when the services are a peak usage.
Once again, we thank you for your custom, and hope to see you one of our customers for years to come.
While it's good to see more ISPs taking action against SPAM, many do fear that enforced server-side filtering is a bad way to do it. Customers should at least have an option.
Far too many legitimate messages get erased because such systems are often too sensitive (even at their lowest setting) and rarely as efficient as claimed.
Sadly ISPs do suffer because of SPAM and it thus becomes a case of utilising one evil to solve another.
You will be pleased to know, that Firenet after 2 years of programming, testing and retesting have finally completed the new ANTI SPAM servers. This makes Firenet's servers the safest, greatest free email server there is, with Anti-virus, unlimited bandwidth, unlimted email accounts and web-based mail that you can check anywhere in the world.
They are now fully active working on 3 main servers.
These are
* firenet.uk.com
* mail.angelfire.ws
* mail.firenet.uk.net
Taken from this, a lot of you will see a massive reduction in emails, do not panic, it is all junk mail. This will also make these servers work much faster, as they havent got as much work to do from now on.
Please do not be concerned about this; we are only deleting Spam-like emails that contain certain aspects and credentials of Spam. These are,
* Bright colours.
* Pornographic words.
* Mailing list that goes nowhere.
* Big pictures with links to known Spam sites
* Have key words that are typical of Spam.
* Swear Words.
* Unsubscribe that links to more porn or Spam.
* Have several other customers of Firenets on the same TO Field.
These are taken into account and given a score, sometimes Spam will come through but this is very limited to about 1 in 1000 Spam emails.
We have decided not to allow any customer to receive Spam whether they wish to or not. Already we are receiving complaints about customers not getting Spam, and that they require to be exempt from ANTI-SPAM screening.
However we will not allow this, as this has cost Firenet thousands of pounds per year in wasted bandwidth.
The final servers mail4.angelfire.ws and mail5.angelfire.ws will be completed by August 2003 and this will be using load balancing when the services are a peak usage.
Once again, we thank you for your custom, and hope to see you one of our customers for years to come.
While it's good to see more ISPs taking action against SPAM, many do fear that enforced server-side filtering is a bad way to do it. Customers should at least have an option.
Far too many legitimate messages get erased because such systems are often too sensitive (even at their lowest setting) and rarely as efficient as claimed.
Sadly ISPs do suffer because of SPAM and it thus becomes a case of utilising one evil to solve another.
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