We have elected to put a substantial portion of our defenses on the client rather than the server as it makes our system less vulnerable. It is annoying to administer, but worth the effort as it has prevented virus- and worm-based . . .
We have elected to put a substantial portion of our defenses on the client rather than the server as it makes our system less vulnerable. It is annoying to administer, but worth the effort as it has prevented virus- and worm-based attacks. Given the number of security holes in the Windows servers, the client-based approach has obvious benefits. It works. The spammers are not anticipating this, and they focus their attack on the server. While we take as much care as possible to protect our servers, they are but one layer and a deception as far as the spammers are concerned.

At this point, we are faced with the choice of rewriting a substantial portion of two Web sites to mitigate the problem or continuing to spend about a half hour per day on directly spam-related screening.

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