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Brightmail Filtering Technologies

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Overview This white paper provides an overview of the preferred weapons of spammers, including filter evasion, tactics and dissemination using open proxies. It describes some guidelines to consider when evaluating and enterprise-caliber anti-spam products. It also describes the summary of anti-spam filtering technologies, infrastructure and resources that Brightmail utilizes. The topics include Brightmail’s comprehensive proactive and responsive filter technologies, its unique spam analysis features, and its 24/7 operations center.

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Publisher	Brightmail Incorporated	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2003	Downloads	71
Format	White Papers
Topics	Spam and E-mail Marketing, Web Filtering

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