@arrl.net
addresses for forwarding to League members' established e-mail accounts.
Best of all, the service will continue to be available to ARRL members at no
additional cost. The changes went into effect September 1.
"Unfortunately, no single spam or virus filter is guaranteed to catch 100
percent of undesirable e-mail traffic," cautions ARRL Chief Financial
Officer Barry Shelley, N1VXY. "Everyone should always protect their own
personal computer with appropriate security software, but these new features
should help reduce the amount of spam and viruses our members taking
advantage of this service have to deal with."
The ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service provides members with a uniform e-mail
address that remains the same even if they switch e-mail service providers.
A switch in vendors has made it possible for ARRL to include these important
new features. Shelley says the addition of the new features should help to
reduce the amount of spam that arrives via ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service
addresses as well as provide members an additional layer of protection from
malicious, virus-laden messages.
The enhancements are being made possible through a switch to Interbridge,
the League's corporate Internet Service Provider. This means members using
the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service now will get the same spam filtering and
virus scanning League Headquarters receives from Interbridge.
To minimize the possibility that wanted mail will be deleted as spam,
Shelley says ARRL has the ability to fine tune the filtering program and, in
fact, has done just that over the months it's been in use for ARRL
Headquarters e-mail. "While nothing is perfect, we have very, very few
instances of false positives," he says.
More than 65,000 ARRL members and clubs use the ARRL E-Mail Forwarding
Service. Members can learn more or sign up for this service by visiting the
ARRL E-Mail Forwarding Service Web page
http://www.arrl.org/members-only/emailfwd.html.
Source:
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 24, No. 34
September 2, 2005
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by W6RWH on September 28, 2005
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Mail this to a friend!
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My local e=mail server uses Postini to reject spam.
Postini allows me to read rejected messages to be sure that it has not rejected a message that should have been allowed through. I find that happens frequently.
The ARRL filter does not allow me to review rejected messages. I never know what I am missing.
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