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MANAGING SPAM IN YOUR E-MAIL
The University of South Carolina uses spam
filters for all e-mail that is received from an address outside
the University network. Filters are based on a combination of
factors, including the distribution list, the subject line, and
the domain from which the e-mail originated.
If you use GroupWise as your e-mail
client, spam filtering is based on a scoring method. E-mails
which receive a score of 3 or higher are tagged as they are
delivered to your inbox. The score is appended to the subject
line of the email as follows: {SpamScore: sss}. Note that the
number of times the character “s” occurs after the colon
indicates the score. For example, an e-mail which scores a 7,
would have the following text appended to the subject line: {SpamScore:
sssssss}.
What constitutes spam is not exact and is
prone to error. We recommend that you initially configure a spam
rule to save e-mails scoring 3 or higher in a separate “junk” or
“spam” e-mail folder. You should review the contents of that
folder periodically to ensure that all e-mails truly are spam
and then delete the contents of the folder. If you find that
some e-mails are incorrectly tagged as spam, you may want to
tune your rule for a higher score. For example, if you subscribe
to vendor-sponsored mailing lists, you may find that some of
those messages or emails will be scored as spam.
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