Marvin RE: Best Way Blocking Spams

Wolfpaw - Dale Corse admin-lists at wolfpaw.net
Mon Apr 28 20:14:28 PDT 2003


I agree.. and our spamassassin has a success rate of about 97%
on spam messages. The failure rate (false tagging) is probably
1/1000. I personally can't see why you wouldn't just use 
SpamAssassin, but thats me..

Regards,
Dale.
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Dale Corse
System Administrator
Wolfpaw Services Inc.
http://www.wolfpaw.net
(780) 474-4095
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RN Hosting
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 11:05 PM
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Marvin RE: Best Way Blocking Spams
> 
> 
> Yikes, my jaw hit the floor when I saw the prices for Marvin.
> 
> What makes it so much better than SpamAssassin that it's worth that
> price?
> 
> Personally, I don't see how a host could afford that and 
> why they would
> want to pay a monthly fee with the availability of databases like
> spamcop, GPL programs like SpamAssassin, Razor, 
> MailScanner, Bogofilter
> etc.
> 
> That costs more than all of my other overhead combined, per 
> domain that
> I host.
> 
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> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:59:09 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com>
> Subject: RE: Best Way Blocking Spams
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<Pine.BSI.4.05L.10304261054090.28662-100000 at unix1.sihope.com>
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> 
> This is somewhat of a shameless plug, but since it's on 
> topic I think
> it's appropriate.
> 
> We are a Minneapolis based ISP.  We didn't like any of the current
> solutions available, so we developed our own.  It's similar 
> to Postini,
> but we've put a lot of thought into it which makes it very 
> ISP-centric,
> so I like it better.  And it runs on FreeBSD.
> 
> We have a specific pricing structure for service providers 
> who want to
> provide it to their customers.
> 
> It is a commercial solution, but if anyone is looking for 
> another "hands
> off" approach like Troy mentioned, check http://marvin.sihope.com.
> 
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> 
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