Small Companies Get Hit Hard by Spam

Small Business Hammered By Spam According to spam eliminator provider, Postini, small companies are getting hit harder than large ones by the spam issue.

Small businesses commonly lack the resources to deploy software that would block most spam. This leaves the issue up to their ISP to deal with. Often businesses select the least aggressive ISP-side filtering option due to concerns about missing email.

Most business spam filtering solutions operate server side. This has the advantage of consolidating all spam fighting functionality at one point of common administration. The downside is that users are commonly never informe Server-side solutions can be expensive to implement. Most systems cost well into the thousands of dollars. Open-source solution are available, but can require more effort to deploy.

Blocking spam client-side is another option companies should consider. It has the advantage of low up-front costs. Users are usually notified of intercepted messages, and can choose to recover them if warranted.

While there is some lack of centralized control, individual users can setup special filters to best meet their own needs. This allows them to stop junk email with minimal risk of missing wanted messages.

The SpamButcher antispam filter is available for a free 21-day trial download from www.spambutcher.com.

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