Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] free Rolex with Canadian erection enlargement medication

["Jim Locke" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Hmm, does having a filter for MLUG discussion in gmail mean it's automatically whitelisted?  If so, good to know.
This didn't get into the gmail spam folder for me, but filtered to my label for Computer-related items.

On Dec 2, 2007 5:12 PM, Ryan Thornton <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

In gmail I have mlug discussions whitelisted so it doesn't matter what
the subject line and content are.
But yeah, I still get a few normal spam that hit gmail.

On Dec 2, 2007 3:04 PM, Mike Miller < EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Yes, I'm kidding.  If this message got through your spam filter, you
> probably need a new spam filter.
>
> The crazy thing is, I get so much of that kind of spam that some of it
> does leak through.  I recently noticed that one of my university email
> addresses was accounting for the vast majority of my spam -- I have been
> getting about 130 spam messages per day through that account.  Once I
> realized that, I started routing all of those messages to a different
> inbox without spam filtering and I discovered that no more than 1-2 out of
> the 130 messages per day were legit.  That's pretty amazing.
>
> So I talked to our IT guys about it and they said they were getting 1.4
> million messages per month into our system and delivering 200,000 of those
> messages.  That is, about 1.2 million detectable spam messages per month,
> or 40,000 per day, are sent to our department's server.  We have maybe 400
> email addresses, so that would be 100 spam messages per day per person.
>
> My worry is that this can continue to get worse.  What's to stop the
> spammers from sending us 1,000 messages per person per day?  Or more?  We
> need to adopt policies that kill these messages with minimal CPU usage,
> preferrably farther out on the perimeter (as they enter umn.edu) so that
> we don't have every division of our University reinventing the wheel.
>
>
> I think I'll resend this with a different subject line so that people will
> see it -- it is a serious issue but I couldn't resist joking about it.
>
> Mike
>
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