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Let's say it takes 10 minutes each am to clean out your mail box.

10 * 5 = 50 minutes per week.
(50 * 52) / 60 = 43+ hours per year
43 * 100 = 4300 hours totally saved per year
If every employee made $10/hr then you'd save about $43k 
the first year.





On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:47, John Allgood wrote:
> We have about 100 employees.
> 
> Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
> >How many people are in your organization?
> >
> >On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:41, John Allgood wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Puremessage allowed the user to manager their own quarantine. If 
> >>something was blocked they could approve within that interface or 
> >>receive a email digest and approve that way. The amount of spam received 
> >>here is unreal.  Over a 24 hour period purmessage blocked over 100 spam 
> >>messages just to me. The price was about $20,000 dollars this included 
> >>spam,virus, and policy management. Everything ran on linux it was 
> >>developed using Sendmail or Postfix, Perl,  and Postgres. That is why I 
> >>liked it so well. And it did a good job. Also allowed the users to have 
> >>control of their own email. Plus it didn't have to sit down and right a 
> >>bunch of recipes. I don't have time for that.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Chris Fowler wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>What was the price?  Will it block enough that your employees will not
> >>>be distracted by the spam?  
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:35, John Allgood wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hello
> >>>>
> >>>>We are looking into switching from our current MailScanner + SpamAssassin Gateway set-up over to a more flexible commercial software package. 
> >>>>
> >>>>We just got done evaluating Sophos PureMessage, but it was more than we wanted to spend. The Sophos software was blocking 98% of spam but it is more tailored to the enterprise market. 
> >>>>
> >>>>Any recommendations would be very welcome
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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