FAQs

  6. Where does spam come from?

Spam is today one of the cheapest marketing tool in the world, some companies pay spammers to send as many mails as possible, advertising their products. And of course because the money you get depends on the volume you send, spammers have come up with sophisticated ways to by pass antis Pam solutions and also send large volumes and make better pay. This has seen the increase of use of Zombie botnets and also emergence of spam messages inscribed in a picture in away to by pass antispam traps.

 7. If am MLA subscribed user and I have mail problem who do I contact? My ISP or MLA?

Mail problems can results from many avenues including network connections, mail server failures, and many more. If you can not receive mails and can browse it is advisable to contact MLA technical desk, otherwise if you can not browse then you need to contact your ISP to check the link.

 4. What does it mean when you say, by subscribing to MLA solution I will have a Smooth changeover from one ISP to another?

Most ISP usually hold user domains when they want to switch in away to protect churn, this has become hard for most organizations to change from one ISP to the other in fear of mail delay and or wrong configurations resulting in mails loss, if you subscribe to MLA you will not change MX records and thus delay through DNS propagation and no mail loss or delay.

 6. What benefits do spammers gain?

Most of the spammers do it for fun or to prove competency. They also make money by sending the spam, since some company pay them per volume of spam sent out.

 7. What is the direct cost of spam to an organization?

-         Takes a lot of employees time to delete the unwanted mails which would have been used on something else.
-         Eats on company’s paid bandwidth
-         Takes storage facility of the company including computers hard disks and other backups devices remember all these are paid for.
-         Reduces employees efficiency at work
-         Forces users to read messages with bad information especially about sex and related information.

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