06 June 2005
Program allows spam removal from Webmail
Program allows spam removal from Webmail By Taylour BurtonSummer Reporter
If spam is in your Purdue Webmail inbox, you can fix that problem.
The Purdue Webmail server can receive around one million spam messages in a day.
But the PureMessage system filters out most of them.
Students are automatically put on the spam filter system, said Jade Cloud, ITaP technical writer.
"(The program) learns how to filter as more spam goes through it," Cloud said.
The Purdue students who were questioned about spam mail said that they hardly receive spam messages.
However, it is still possible to receive spam.
Purdue students can go to Purdue's online directory and look up their own contact information.
After clicking the edit button, they can go to a spam-scanning link that will allow them to turn on the spam filter for their account.
If the spam filter is already on and there is still spam mail in an inbox, Cloud suggests using Microsoft Outlook 2003 because it has a junk-mail holder, or a program called Spam Assassin.
Despite legislative acts to fight it, the amount of spam has grown in the past few years.
According to Postini.com, the amount of spam mail has increased 65 percent since January 2002.
The Can-Spam Act of 2003 required unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to have labels and prevented the use of deceptive subject lines or false headers.
According to Cloud, the PureMessage system filters out labels containing the words "new products," "free" or "you have been approved."
Sometimes the system filters out messages that aren't spam.
Every few weeks a student will get an e-mail titled "Quarantined Spam Messages." This e-mail has a list of all the messages that were filtered.
Cloud said students might want to check that list to make sure nothing important was filtered out.
If spam is in your Purdue Webmail inbox, you can fix that problem.
The Purdue Webmail server can receive around one million spam messages in a day.
But the PureMessage system filters out most of them.
Students are automatically put on the spam filter system, said Jade Cloud, ITaP technical writer.
"(The program) learns how to filter as more spam goes through it," Cloud said.
The Purdue students who were questioned about spam mail said that they hardly receive spam messages.
However, it is still possible to receive spam.
Purdue students can go to Purdue's online directory and look up their own contact information.
After clicking the edit button, they can go to a spam-scanning link that will allow them to turn on the spam filter for their account.
If the spam filter is already on and there is still spam mail in an inbox, Cloud suggests using Microsoft Outlook 2003 because it has a junk-mail holder, or a program called Spam Assassin.
Despite legislative acts to fight it, the amount of spam has grown in the past few years.
According to Postini.com, the amount of spam mail has increased 65 percent since January 2002.
The Can-Spam Act of 2003 required unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to have labels and prevented the use of deceptive subject lines or false headers.
According to Cloud, the PureMessage system filters out labels containing the words "new products," "free" or "you have been approved."
Sometimes the system filters out messages that aren't spam.
Every few weeks a student will get an e-mail titled "Quarantined Spam Messages." This e-mail has a list of all the messages that were filtered.
Cloud said students might want to check that list to make sure nothing important was filtered out.
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