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Fighting Spam While Maintaining Free Access to Public Information

Overview The municipal government of Skovde, Sweden dealt with a growing spam problem within the confines of laws and customs that protect communications with government agencies. By installing Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software, it stopped spam from reaching employee desks, while saving the messages for review. Immediately upon implementation, the solution has reduced email volume and storage requirements by 75 percent, and saved considerable staff time in reviewing and deleting unwanted messages.

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Publisher	Symantec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Network Security

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