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Overview This paper describes spam and strategies to fight against spam. Unsolicited junk email steals system resources and reduces employee productivity for every company with electronic mail. It has become an issue, which can no longer be ignored. Enterprises can develop corporate email security policies that define what is acceptable in the organization. Strategies against spam should become part of the overall network protection strategies.

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Publisher	SANS Institute	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	December 2003	Downloads	18
Format	White Papers
Topics	Spam and E-mail Marketing, Network Security

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