"Spam Sucks!..."

We've all said it, after wading through mountains of Viagra and mortgage emails, and it's true; Spam Sucks!... it really does. Email-based spam sucks bandwidth away from your network, sucks performance out of your computer, and sucks time from your day. Fight back, with Spam Filtering services from Billboard Hosting Services (available to users with a qualified Internet domain)

Our spam filter hates spam as much as you do, maybe even more. Like a determined bulldog, it sinks its teeth into each incoming email message and won't let go until it's done with its work.

Briefly, here's how: Email destined for your domain, e.g., "you@yourdomain.com", enters our system and goes through several stages. These include:

• Sender verification: If the sending domain is bogus, that email gets rejected (e.g, "joe@fakedomain.com")
• Virus checks: If the email contains a virus, it's dropped. Period. We've never seen a legitimate email with a virus attached.
• Content checks: Each email is subjected to over 700 tests to determine its content, then given a 'score' that indicates its likelihood of being spam.
• Our system compares notes with other 'smart' servers around the globe to see what they can tell us about their experience with this same email message, sender, content, etc., then it takes that information to further clarify what it knows about that email, and finally...
• Driven by a 'learning' engine, our system gets smarter with each email that passes through, and from you confirming whether it determined your spam and non-spam emails correctly.

Here's a quick rundown of some of the features:

•   Users can manage their own content filtering settings
•   Users can maintain their own whitelists and blacklists
•   Users can see a list of their quarantined spam, sorted by score
•   Users can see a list of their quarantined viruses, sorted by date
•   Users can view text or HTML contents of quarantined mail in decoded or raw form in a "safe" mail viewer
•   Users can rescue quarantined items to have them redelivered, delete them, or confirm them as spam
•   Users can report "false negatives" (i.e. spam that gets past the filters)
•   Optional auto-whitelisting for senders of rescued quarantine items
•   Cross-browser support (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.)
•   Template themes allow users to select from a number of different layout designs
•   Graphical toolbars with icons
•   Online help pages for users and administrators
•   Localisation support for different languages
•   Safe mail viewer for spam and viruses, including image-blocking
•   Multiple e-mail addresses can be linked to a single account
•   Individual settings can be maintained for each e-mail address
•   Administrators can "impersonate" regular users to help with support issues
•   Scheduled e-mail reminders to encourage users to review their quarantine areas
•   Scheduled e-mail digests enable users to manage their quarantines directly from their mail clients
•   30-day retention period for neglected quarantined items
•   Per-domain and system-wide settings can be defined by Administrators
•   Virus alias administration functions
•   Unless explicitly discarded, no mail is ever "lost"
•   Mail is stored in pristine form
•   Privacy settings can be configured to prevent or allow administrators to read users' e-mail
•   Tracks viruses, spam, and non-spam for statistical purposes
•   Filter effectiveness stats
•   Statistics available in table form
•   Unlimited number of email accounts allowed

It's obvious that our system is superior to other 'one size fits all' and workstation-based approaches to spam... Every month, hundreds of thousands of emails pass through our system, get checked, then blocked as spam or passed as non-spam (the good stuff), and for the most part (> 98%) our system gets it right... but it's not perfect. (No spam system is perfect. Anybody who tells you theirs is perfect is, well, lying to you.)

The bad guys never sleep and 'the game' constantly evolves, so our system is constantly being automatically updated with the latest salvo of information it needs to stay on top. When it does becomes necessary to check for 'blocked' messages, or inform our system about a 'spam' email that got through, a straightforward web-based user interface provides all the functionality to make the task of spam management easier. Additionally, all spam settings are customizable per-user.

To take advantage of our spam filter, you only need two things: your own domain and an email server we can forward your emails to after we're done with them (which takes only a few seconds). If you need help setting that up, just give us a call!

At $17.95 a month, for unlimited emails, unlimited bandwidth, per-user settings and clean email, you'll agree this is a great value!

Yep, spam is bothersome... but it doesn't have to bother you. Give us a call anytime at 701-837-6202 to find out more, or better yet, to get started today on the road to spam-free email!