Len Conrad wrote: > >> If we are going to compare the prices with other products, we should >> also include the 30% average reduction in bandwith usage to your mail >> server. > > > With IMGate at the edge, only the sending ip (RBL lookups and local > filtering) and headers (filtering + DNS validations) are enough to reject. > > VERY HARD even to count how much just the HEADERS of rejected messages > consume, but it's miniscule, at worst. > > Typical reject rates for IMGate run between 15% and 40%. > > True, local AV solutions have to receive the entire message (bandwidth) > in order to scan/reject it, but infections run well below 1% of total > messages. > > I can't see where Postini is going to save 30% of bandwidth, except in > Postini sales literature. > > Len >
Len, You are absolutely right.. and 30% bandwidth savings has to an unfounded 'guess'. ~Rick ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
