The amount of spam sent to the UTC email systems have been steadily 
increasing over the past several months. On recent days, the anti-spam 
system blocked approximately 77% of all incoming email as spam.

Filtering out spam, yet allowing as much legitimate mail as possible 
through, on the scale of and diversity of the entire UTC email community 
requires a difficult balancing act. Inevitably, some spam gets through.

The Possible Spam added to the Subject line is to alert you that the 
content may be spam, but the filtering automation is not sure enough to 
block it. Almost every day I get legitimate email that is marked 
Possible Spam. If we blocked everything currently marked Possible Spam, 
it would block a lot of legitimate mail.

In addition, there is a new technique that spammers are using that sends 
an image without text that the UTC anti-spam filtering automation does 
not yet know how to block because there are many legitimate uses of 
sending images. The vendor of the anti-spam system is working hard at a 
solution, but meanwhile just hit the delete key when needed.

Remember that if the anti-spam system was not in place you would get 
approximately 6 times more email, all of which would be spam!

Richard


Tom Bodkin wrote:
> What good is it that the system flags 35 messages as SPAM, and still puts them in my box, and I have to waste my time going through them?  If it's SPAM, just have it killed at my email doorstep?  I don't think UTC's filter is doing what we want it to do, which is to save us time, not take it up.  Can we have a more proactive or aggressive SPAM system please?  
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
> Tom Bodkin
> Soc, Anth, and Geog
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Harms <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:45:23 -0400
> Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Junk email
> 
> I have been receiving several junk emails lately.  Could someone please
> inform me of how to flag these messages?  
> Thanks,
> Leslie Harms
> 
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