How does the SOE Barracuda SPAM firewall differ from the UWM campus SPAM filter?
The SOE Barracuda SPAM Firewall is very effective at combating spam because it is fast and extremely accurate. The number of spam messages that slip by the SPAM filter is very small and the number of false positives is phenomenally rare. The UWM campus anti-spam filter only uses a static set of widely-available rules to determine if an email message is spam. Since these rules are well known throughout the Internet community, they are also well known to the spammers who have learned to defeat these rules. Continually updating these rules to defeat spam would require a dedicated full-time team of staff. SOE has purchased a cutting edge spam firewall along with a 3-year subscription of hourly updates so a dedicated team at Barracuda Central can continually modify rules and improve spam email detection. Along with the anti-spam rules are many other types of intelligent technologies to combat spam. See question #2 for more detailed information. The SOE Barracuda firewall also employs Bayesi
