Spam is 97% of your incoming messages! With its nonsense text and offensive advertisements, it is probably the single most cursed by-product of the Internet. It wastes your time. Multiplied by the number of your employees, it wastes your company’s productivity. It carries a deadly payload of viruses and other infections that can cripple your computers, ruin your data, and spread like wildfire through your network. It clogs your email server so the real traffic doesn’t get through and can hijack your server to relay more spam, landing you on a black list so you can’t send legitimate email.
Unlike direct mail, the cost of spam is transferred to the consumer. Spammers spend the same amount whether they send one message or a million. But you pay by storing the unwanted email on your hard drives, buying anti-spam software and services, and – worst of all – losing productivity. Spam is a financial drain on your company, not only for the 10-30 minutes each individual spends daily clearing it, but also for the distraction. For highly leveraged employees or company owners, the cost is particularly damaging.
Anti-Spam Methods That Don’t Work Well
Of course, every computer should have anti-virus software, but that doesn’t do anything to step the spam. You can create rules for incoming messages, but you won’t get much else done if you start on that path. Manually deleting spam is even worse. Some email providers, such as Hotmail, filter out spam for you. But that won’t help if your email is on your own domain. Anti-spam software, installed on your PC, provides some protection but it still ties up your computer resources and is time consuming to administer – defining filters, black lists, keywords, white lists, and so on. And you still have to check every message for “false positives” – legitimate messages that get caught in the anti-spam net.
How We Save You Time and Protect Your Network
MLANS Peace of Mind Spam Blocker receives and filters your email on our network in two steps:
- We sequester known spam that’s blasted in huge quantities from known spammers, and you never even need to see it.
- That leaves suspected spam. You use a web browser to view the headers of around 20 messages on a typical day, release any legitimate messages to your inbox via your mail server, and then click once to delete the rest.
Next, if you are using Microsoft Outlook on your PC, it puts any remaining, suspected spam (just a few per day) into a “junk mail” folder that you check for any legitimate messages. The total time per day to deal with spam is a couple of minutes at most.
Because the filtered spam often contains viruses and other infections, it stays on our network and never reaches your server, so it cannot infect your computers.
How We Preserve Your Company’s Reputation
Our MLANS Peace of Mind Spam Blocker filters all outbound email for viruses or spam. This protects your company’s reputation and helps to avoid the business disruption of IP address blacklisting.
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