Christian Quest wrote: > Are statistics that important ? > Fact: some spam will get past any antispam solution. The trick is that you want to be using a solution that minimizes that amount
So when a senior manager complains about a particular piece of spam that reached her mailbox, and says "your system is useless - why aren't you using 'vendor Y'?", you need to be able to refute that with... Stats! :-) ...and if you find out your system is only catching 85% of spam, then it is indeed time to be looking for a new solution (assuming you have configured it/etc) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
