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I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I’ve certainly been getting at least twice as much spam since UCIS updated the rules on their spam filter. That being said, I still don’t get a whole lot of spam considering how public my e-mail address is. Burried in the UCIS Reivew are some anecdotal numbers. Many of them are silly little things, but one that they mention that is of note is that their spam/virus filter drops somewhere on the order of 600 000 to 700 000 e-mail messages per day before they make it to a mail server for processing. They’ve got it set up so that only the worst of spam gets dropped which is why a lot of it leaks through and requires additional filtering. That’s ok though because the stuff that UCIS drops is completely dropped and unrecoverable, so you don’t want questionable ones disapearing into the ether. Better to deliver them and let people decide for themselves.

I personally use the spam filter on Thunderbird to keep my mailbox clutter-free. The filter learns from what I mark and un-mark as spam. I’ve been using it for a long time now and I have to say that it’s worked extremely well for me. Some of the messages that I get will come from mailing lists and occasionally get marked as spam. Once I unmark it, it’s an extremely rare occurence that anything else from that mailing list will get tagged as spam.

Overall, it’s a bit of a bummer that I’m getting more spam since the change, but on the bright side I’ve got a decent filter of my own as a backup so another week or so of training and it should be fine and I should be relatively spam-free again.

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