Have you noticed that your inbox has been overrun lately by junk email (spam)? You’re not alone.

Internet service providers have noticed a huge increase in the volume of spam hitting their mail servers. Some have reported as much as a 59% increase in spam message counts since September 2006. This kind of increase causes a number of problems for DONet as your service provider, such as unexpected overloads in bandwidth, delivery delays, and increased server storage. Worst of all, spam kills your productivity and wastes your time.

Yesterday, we rolled out new technology across our email server infrastructure that has resulted in an remarkable decrease in junk mail. With this technology, we were able to immediately block more than 3,000,000 spam emails destined for delivery in our customers’ inboxes in the last 19 hours! This is a phenomenal improvement, reducing our total (legitimate) email volume by over 80%. Ultimately, this means faster email delivery times for our customers, and increased productivity for you. Our employees are already rejoicing because their inboxes this morning weren’t cluttered with offers for pills, mortgages, stock tips, and the like.

If you have an @donet.com email address you automatically get spam filtering at no charge. On the other hand, if you have your own domain name and need relief from your spam avalanche please give our sales team a call at (937) 226-6896 and ask to have spam filtering added to your account for a small fee per mailbox. You won’t regret having fewer junk email messages to comb through.

We hope you have seen an improvement, just as we have, and that you have fewer spams to sort through each day. This is another example of how we continue to try to be your “very smart friend”.