Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO Eliminates 96% of Spam on College Campus

Users vote 98% in favor of CanIt-PRO industry-leading enterprise anti-spam solution, administration time is slashed to just minutes per day.

Hollywood, FL (PRWEB) July 28, 2003 -- ACUTA Annual Conference -- Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC) in Alberta has satisfied its e-mail users with CanIt-PRO, selected to resolve the problem of e-mail spam experienced by college employees. CanIt, an industry-leading anti-spam solution from Roaring Penguin Software, Inc., makers of the acclaimed MIMEDefang e-mail inspection software, currently serves all faculty and staff at GPRC.

Karel Jennings, systems technician at GPRC, started evaluating anti-spam solutions due to the weekly volume of complaints about the spam problem. Each of the college's faculty and staff was spending about 30 minutes dealing with as many as 100 spam e-mail messages per day in the worst instances.

Jennings said, With our old system, suspected spam was quarantined and then our help desk person had to go through it all -- she would check it several times a day. Some users didn't like that loss of privacy, and some faculty said that e-mails from students were getting to them late."

GPRC chose the CanIt Appliance running CanIt-PRO for its flexibility in allowing individual users to set e-mail filtering preferences. This level of control is important to large organizations and campus environments, where individual preferences, needs and departmental policies can vary.

Jennings confirmed, One of our biggest concerns was that some faculty wanted to be able to opt out. None of the other solutions could exempt just one user or a group of users. It was either on or off for everybody. With the CanIt Appliance, we have that flexibility." After an evaluation period, the college's users voted 98% in favor of keeping CanIt, and Jennings spends just a couple of minutes each day administering the system.

CanIt is available in standard and professional versions as either a software download or on a plug-and-play appliance. CanIt-PRO is ideal for very large enterprises or campus environments, where control and management of the system needs to be distributed to individual departments or users. A detailed case study of GPRC's CanIt implementation is available at www.canit.ca/customer_testimonials.php. A trial version of CanIt can be obtained at www.canit.ca/evaluation.php.

About CanIt
CanIt is the most effective, affordable anti-spam solution for enterprises, campuses and ISPs. It effectively stops spam at the mail server while providing unmatched flexibility. CanIt correctly identifies 98% of spam messages and never discards a valid e-mail. Administrators and users have the final say over what is or isn't spam.

For more information, visit www.canit.ca. Information about Roaring Penguin Software, Inc. can be found at www.roaringpenguin.com.

About Grande Prairie Regional College
GPRC is a publicly supported, post-secondary institution in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Established in 1966, GPRC now offers a wide variety of exciting career programs, university studies, options for degree completion and an Applied Degree in Forest Resource Management.

For more information visit: www.gprc.ab.ca.