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Tumbleweed Press Releases
Graybar Deploys Tumbleweed's Anti-Spam Update Service
to Stop 99% of Spam Automated Update Service Reduces Spam Administration Requirements By More Than 90%, Freeing Up Over 40 Hours Per Week Redwood City, CA - March 30, 2004 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of secure Internet messaging software and appliances for enterprises and government agencies, announced today that Graybar, North America’s leading electrical and telecommunications distributor, has selected and deployed Tumbleweed’s Dynamic Anti-spam Service to combat spam. This automated anti-spam update service, which runs on top of the Tumbleweed Email Firewall, is now automatically identifying and blocking 99% of Graybar’s inbound spam email with little to no administration required. Graybar, an employee-owned Fortune 500 corporation, is a leader in the distribution of high-quality electrical and telecommunications products and an expert provider of related supply chain management and logistics services. Graybar recently was awarded a 2003 InfoWorld 100 award in recognition of outstanding technology leadership for its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and named for the first time to the annual InformationWeek 500. The company has 6,000 active email users spread across 250 U.S. locations, who receive approximately 120,000 emails daily, over 75% of it considered spam. The IT organization tracks the amount of email entering the company and found that the amount of spam was rising at an alarming rate. Graybar has been using the Tumbleweed Email Firewall for over three years to filter inbound and outbound email for potentially harmful viruses, mass mail worms, inappropriate content, executable file attachments, and spam. However, Graybar’s IT organization knew that the exponential growth of inbound spam over the past year would soon become a major problem. Managing whitelists and blocklists required increasing amounts of administrative overhead, and was decreasing in effectiveness as spammer tactics such as address and identity spoofing continued to evolve. After learning about Tumbleweed’s Dynamic Anti-spam Service, an automated anti-spam update service that works with Tumbleweed’s Email Firewall. Graybar tested the spam service. The system proved to be so effective that they quickly put it into production. Once implemented, Tumbleweed’s Dynamic Anti-spam Service was able to trap 99% of spam with no false positives. Because of the automatic nature of Tumbleweed’s spam service, Graybar was able to reduce significantly the administrative time spent battling spam. “We’ve been working with Tumbleweed for 3 ½ years now, starting with anti-virus and content filtering capabilities, and now anti-spam,’ said Ted Hoffman, Director Enterprise Architecture and Operations at Graybar. “We continue to do business with Tumbleweed because they have a mature email firewall products, with broad functionality, and have proven to be best-in-breed across the board. Going forward, we are investigating ways to use Tumbleweed’s products to further enhance management of the email environment.” About Tumbleweed's Email Firewall About Tumbleweed's Dynamic Anti-Spam Service “The combination of the Tumbleweed Email Firewall and Dynamic Anti-spam Service provides firms like Graybar with a multi-layer, automated approach to email hygiene and the fight against spam, said Dave Jevans, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Tumbleweed Communications. About Graybar About Tumbleweed Communications Corp. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the sales of Tumbleweed solutions and the efficacy of those solutions for particular users. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 15, 2004. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation
to update information
contained in this press release, including for example
its guidance regarding its future performance, which
represents the Company's expectations only
as of the date of this release and should not be viewed
as a statement about the Company's expectations after
such date. Although this release
may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere,
its continued availability does not indicate that the
Company is reaffirming or confirming
any of the information contained herein. |
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