[R-390] QTH.NET and the sorbs conspiracy

[Barry Hauser]

Interesting stuff, Mike.

Due primarily to spam and spam blockers, I did away with 95% of the email 
traffic in my business.  It had become unreliable to the point where 
something like  20% of emails weren't delivered or received and our 
computers were too exposed to worms and viruses, despite the latest 
protection software.

We set up a customer service type, web based help desk "ticketing system". 
While it has an email feature, we have it turned off.  Those who need to 
communicate with us have accounts and passwords and log into a special web 
site to post messages.  Topics are organized with click-on options and this 
controls the routing to whomever is supposed to handle the various types of 
inquiries.

The near equivalent can be replicated with the reflectors by simply 
eliminating email input and output and allowing only direct reading and 
posting on the web site.

If things continue this way or get worse, that might have to be the way to 
go.  It's just too bad the "modern marvel" of email has gotten fouled up 
already.  It's already gotten to the point that clients and agents have to 
phone in to make sure their email has been received -- which sort of defeats 
a good deal of the purpose.

Fortunately (segue-ing to on topic) our R-390's are relatively spam proof. 
I say relatively as there's always the odd chance that a previous owner 
tossed in a few morsels of the canned stuff, possibly to feed the radio 
spider, or when he was muching on a spam, spam, ham and spam sandwich while 
doing an alignment.

Barry





Mike wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:01:51AM -0500, Jim M. wrote:
>> Apparently Tom Norris is using Google mail (gmail).  Google embeds
>> advertising to pay for the "free" service.  Does this advertising find 
>> its
>> way into outgoing emails and get blocked by sorbs?  The sorbs website is
>> http://www.us.sorbs.net/   maybe that can help.
>
> I do mail filtering and security for a living, as you might infer from my
> sig block. This is a subject which pays my salary and determines whether 
> my
> annual evaluation will be good or bad. It's near and dear to my heart, and
> I've been doing it long enough (10 years now) to be able to speak abouot 
> it
> with some credibility.

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