Hannaford curbs spam for its 4,000 e-mail users
Faced with a surging amount of e-mail spam, supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers Co. has deployed a new filtering system for its 4,000 corporate e-mail users at 260 sites, the company said.
"Currently we`re receiving over 85,000 e-mail messages a month from the Internet and the volume continues to rise," said Bill Homa, CEO of Hannaford, which operates 119 supermarkets in the northeast under brands Shop`n Save and Hannaford Food and Drug Superstores. "Spam and non-business associated e-mails represent a significant portion of those e-mails and cannot be tolerated within a business environment."
Hannaford said it deployed the securiQ.Wall spam filtering system from Group Technologies in an effort to block spam and other inappropriate content. "That translates to increased productivity, less disk consumption and reduced legal liability," Homa said.
The spam filtering system filters all aspects of incoming e-mail, including sender, recipient, subject, attachments, content and file identification for both Internet and intranet transmissions, said Doug Roberts, Hannaford`s manager of system services. "We`ve been able to effectively monitor e-mails, customize content filtering, develop corporate e-mail policies and eliminate non-business-related e-mails from the system," Roberts said.
Hannaford also deployed Group Technologies`s securiQ.Safe e-mail recording and archiving system.
Hannaford is a subsidiary of Delhaize America, the U.S. unit of Belgium-based Delhaize Group. Group Technologies, also known as GT US Inc., is the North American division of Germany-based Group Technologies AG.
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