1. You will never prevent all spam from getting to users inboxes without false positives. Do not let any one tell you different. 2. They are both good products, although one has very loud marketing. 3. I have trialed GFI, and the included keylists created a lot of false positives "out of the box." 4. The war on spam is not simple nor cheap. 5. Since you only have 25 users, have you thought about using a 3rd party in what is called E-Mail Gateway service or Store and Forward service? John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: Marvin Cummings [mailto:mcummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:26 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] iHateSpam vs GFI http://www.MSExchange.org/ Anyone have any points they'd care to share as to why they'd choose one of these products over the other? The need is to have a centralized spam filter that prevents any and all spam from making it to the users inbox. Also don't want to have to sit and add entry after entry of items to be filtered. GFI wins on the pricing being that I only have 25 users. I really would like to know how most feel on this. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------