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"You Have 6,184 Unread Messages"
(local spam magnet)
 
Got a call yesterday from an employee that stated he never checks his email and wanted me to look at something for him.  I wander back to his workstation and he points to his inbox in Outlook.  6,184.  That’s how many unread email messages he had.  I asked him if he uses his email address to sign up for things and he swears he doesn’t.  Yeah, right.  After deleting all his messages I notice that during the deletion time, he had already received five new junk emails.  I had investigated some enterprise spam programs for Exchange, but never followed through.  A former co- worker pointed me to ORF (Open Filter Relay from vamsoft).  They have a 30 day trial version with full functionality.  So I installed and configured it. It took less than 10 minutes, and I was dropping junk email off the server like a bad habit.  The program has a real time statistics counter.  From 8:00 this morning until lunch at 1:00 we had received 790 emails.  Of all of those emails only 169 were actual valid non spam mail.  Almost 80 percent of our mail is spam.  I wouldn’t have believed that.  Being a small company, I can only imagine the volume of unsolicited email the big corporations get.

Speaking of spam, has anyone ever ACTUALLY purchased something sent in an unsolicited email?  Anyone?  Well, someone obviously has, and we need to hunt that person down and give them a reason to buy that penis enlargement pill.

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