SPAM August 16, 2007
Posted by Paul Cheeseman in: Uncategorized, 2 commentsTags: Groupwise, Spam
We have been testing out a SPAM solution for the past 6 weeks. The trial solution takes the form of one single server with some clever software on it that tries to figure out if an e-mail is SPAM or not. I’ve known that the SPAM solution has been working quite hard but I’ve never really looked into it any further…..until about 20 minutes ago that is.
The SPAM software does some clever things to figure out if e-mail server connections coming in is from a legitimate source. If the source can not be verified the the incoming connection is probably SPAM. The software also checks against lists of known SPAM e-mail addresses and mail servers. It then uses the information from these checks to decide if the connecon should be allowed or not. In the past 24 hours the SPAM software rejected 111,481 connection attempts from known spammers and unverifiable sources. Around 90% of all incoming e-mail connections are rejected because they are trying to deliver SPAM. I was quite shocked by this.
Of the incoming e-mail connections that pass the initial tests there are still a number of SPAM messages that get picked off by the software. Before the SPAM software was put into place these messages would have ended up in our GroupWise mail boxes. How many SPAM messages do you thing Edge Hill gets in 24 hours ? Have a guess, 100, 1000, 10,000 ? Would you be suprised to know that the total SPAM messages dealt with by the SPAM solution in the last 24 hours was 19,121 messages? All this is in just one day !! Once I have some stats for a full month I will report back, but I’m sure the numbers will be quite staggering.
July / August Update August 16, 2007
Posted by Paul Cheeseman in: General, Service Interruption, 1 commentTags: Access-Manager, GO, novell, shibboleth, UK Federation
It’s been a while since my last post so I thought I’d add a quick update. Edge Hill has now joined the UK Federation, we are due to install our Shibboleth server in the next two weeks. We have some challenges ahead of us in the next few weeks. The biggest of these challenges is providing services during the scheduled site wide power outages in September. Another big challenge will be the implementation of Novell’s Access Manager, this will form part of the new GO portal that is currently being developed by the Web Services Team. We are also due to draw up some hardware specifications for the VMware project. September will see an on-site trial of the Sun Ray client devices.
Job Advert August 2, 2007
Posted by Paul Cheeseman in: General, Team News, add a commentTags: recruitment
The Core Services Officer post has been re-advertised with a slightly modified job description. It can be viewed on the EH jobs website
We are looking for a fourth person to join our team, full details of the post can be found on the website.
