“Spam has a real and terrible cost burden that it places on
systems administrators around the world. Viruses trying to pass
through to unsuspecting Windows desktop users are the bane of IT’s
existance.“But as early as 1997, two men saw the coming storm and started
their own company to create a line of products that would protect
systems from the deluge.“The men were Dick Hardt and Tim O’Reilly (of the highly
successful O’Reilly tech book series). The company was
ActiveState.“ActiveState’s flagship product to administer e-mail and filter
out the junk is PureMessage, which recently won the Best Systems
Administration Tool award at the LinuxWorld Expo in San
Francisco.“By rolling the results of several different anti-spam
techniques into an industry unique composite scoring value,
PureMessage was designed to filter messages and take specific
actions to deal with spam. Using the anti-virus, policy, and
central support modules, system managers can also bring some sanity
back into e-mail administration…”
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