New solution to stop spam and the latest developments in our three-year battle against it.

Postini, the world's leading spam filtering service, used by major corporations around the world, is now available to smaller firms through specially designated resellers, including our company.

With the latest algorithms to foil spammers' coding tricks, real-time virus protection, and filtering of outbound content, Postini has developed a reputation as the premier service in fighting spam and computer protection. 

We are continuing to fight spam on other fronts as well. After a series of unsolicited emails from the state of Connecticut to one of my personal accounts, I wrote a letter to the Attorney General and received some publicity in local papers including the Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, New Haven Register and Danbury News-Times.

Also, our firm is working on a long-term project to create a free brochure on spam and distribute a petition for submission to the U.S. Congress. We are informing clients through our company newsletter about recent developments, such as the use of "zombie computers" by spammers, a technique that the Spamhaus Project estimates may increase the percentage of junk email from 75 percent of all transmissions to over 90 percent. Some other statistics:

• Spam and viruses cost businesses $23 billion dollars in 2003 from lost productivity, interruption of services, and wasted or damaged resources.

• According to Ferris Research, spam alone accounts for $10 billion in lost productivity.

• The Computer Research Board identified more than 7,000 new viruses, worms and Trojan horses in 2003, costing businesses $13 billion.

For LPS customers who subscribe to Postini, we are blocking 25,000 transmissions of spam and removing 600 emails with viruses every month. For more information, please contact us at 203-422-0686. Thank you for your interest.