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Comment Re:anyone else find most groupon offers kinda scam (Score 1) 245

Yup. I had something like a 40% off coupon at The Gap but it was 40% regular retail price only. All their pants were already discounted so I only ended up saving about 5% had I not used the "coupon", but it got me through the door. Coincidentally, I'm wearing those pants right now and the seams are coming undone. Thanks Groupon!

Comment Re:Power to the people :) (Score 1) 453

OP here... I'm actually a "junior" programmer (newest guy on staff), but in smaller organizations, we're often asked to wear many hats. Just last week I was moving office furniture. The "senior" Network Admin had "delegated" the tasks of email maintenance and backups to me, which in my humble opinion are 2 of the biggest responsibilities of a network admin. ...so I'm actually inheriting methods I don't agree with so I'm looking for better solutions. I know almost nothing about networking, but to anyone outside of IT (management), anything having to do with computers is interchangeable, even though the training/schooling you go through to be a programmer vs. network admin are entirely different.
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Submission + - Spam filtering for small/medium sized business? 2

or_is_it writes: The company I work for has been growing dramatically and I've been charged with the task of being the gatekeeper for our GFI Spam filters. This involves manually inspecting the subject line/to/from for all caught messages in each filter rule folder. For a company of about 50 people, in one day the number of Spam messages can easily exceed 2,000. Neglect it for a day and you end up with quite a task on your hands. I've made the rules lax enough so important messages can go through, along with a few stray Spams, for which I get bitched at. Tighten the rules up and then an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended target and I get bitched at. Manually reading through all those subject lines is supposed to prevent that but I'm only human and genuine messages and easily get overlooked. How do larger organizations deal with Spam issues? I can't imagine having one centralized person manually inspecting everyone's Junk mail header is the optimal solution. I'm not afraid of purchasing a different commercial mail filter product, but I'd like to hear some anecdotal evidence before jumping ship.

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