We understand how heavily you rely on e-mail every day, the importance of having a reliable service to send and receive messages, and the negative impact that SPAM can have on your day-to-day operations. We take this very seriously and protecting your inboxes from illegitimate messages is one of our highest priorities.
What do we do to fight SPAM for you?
92% of all inbound messages routed to our servers and your inbox are blocked by our anti-SPAM technology. Consider that for a second... Out of the thousands of e-mails directed to our servers each and every day, only 8% of those
actually make it through our filters. Those are the messages you want and need. And those are the messages we ensure reach your inbox.
Case in point: On a typical day, approximately 1.4
million e-mails hit our inbound gateways. That's a lot
of e-mail! Yet, out of that tremendous number of
messages aimed for our customers' inboxes, our systems
catch and deliver only about 114,000 of them. Even
if 5% of those 114,000 messages we deliver are still
spam, our anti-SPAM technology is making the correct
decision, separating spam from legitimate mail, 99.6% of
the time. That is remarkable.
In addition, our spam filters aren’t the regular off-the-shelf solutions. It’s a very expensive
upper-level service that is updated hourly to ensure we’re fighting spam as fast as the spammers can invent new ways to send it to you. It’s a constant battle. As anti-spam measures improve, spammers figure out new plans of attack. Anti-spam technology improves to stop it, and around we go again.
How do they get your e-mail address?
Some make use of automated, autonomous software called “bots” to scan web pages for e-mail addresses. Since your e-mail address is important to your business, you want to provide it to the public on your XSite and elsewhere. Unfortunately, it’s also available to spammers. Private e-mail addresses (those used by regular people for private correspondence) don’t receive nearly as much spam because they aren’t published on the Internet in conspicuous places. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. We’ll continue to fight spam, but the benefits of your accessibility to your clients and prospects easily overwhelms the inconveniences you experience as a result of spam.
The battle continues...
We’ll continue to vigilantly stop spam in its tracks. The results speak for themselves, but we can’t simply rest on our laurels and pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. There is constant work to be done, and we'll keep fighting the good fight.
