ࡱ> !k Sbjbj "}}S l B(8888$ o88ooo88ooRo8 `*0BoIUP Technology Committee Update Spam Filtering Trial Period 5-DEC-2002 As announced and documented earlier this fall, spam filters were implemented on the IUP.EDU e-mail service on 11-OCT-2002. (Please see the TUC www page at  HYPERLINK "http://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilities" http://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilities for full details about the original proposal and the related announcement). In the 51 day period from 11-OCT-2002 to 30-NOV-2002, a total of 1.1 million e-mails (an average of 21,000 messages per day) were returned to sender based on the block lists employed with this trial. From the returned e-mails, IUP received 19 follow-up inquiries to the blocklist-admin@iup.edu address. Inquiries were received from a mix of students, faculty, staff, and outside users. IUP does not maintain the blocklists so the typical response is to identify the organization that is listings the e-mail host in question as a spammer and to suggest that the user notify their e-mail administrator to take the necessary steps to stop the spamming. Students using e-mail from a blocklisted site were encouraged to use their IUP e-mail for university communications. The block lists are dynamic and several inquiries were resolved by the time IUP responded (i.e. the site in question had been removed from the blocklist when IUP went to research the inquiry). Finally, as a result of the blocklist-admin discussions, one mail server was given an override (i.e. identified mail from that server to be delivered to IUP regardless of what was listed on a blocklist). 26 comments were directed to the  HYPERLINK "mailto:spam-filtering-comments@iup.edu" spam-filtering-comments@iup.edu list established for the trial period. Most were very positive -- typically of the type thank you, can you do more?. Two expressed reservations about blocking a particular address in one case and, in the second case, about blocking mail from an entire server instead of a specific user. Some inquiries were also submitted about places to report spam. Because IUP does not develop or maintain our own blocklists, we do not have a source for reporting spam. Using the information above and independent feedback obtained from their constituents, the technology committees are now asked to evaluate the trial period and determine if they are opposed to continuing the spam filters as a production service. If there are objections from ACOC/ACPAC/AOG/TUC, TUC will evaluate the removal of the filters and possible alternative projects to address the spam issue. Otherwise, the filters will be maintained as a production service with IUP.EDU e-mail. I9:> ? s t u SjU0JjU jU 5CJaJ>IJKRS  g h RS$a$S 1h/ =!"#$%DyK !http://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilitiesyK Bhttp://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilitiesDyK  spam-filtering-comments@iup.eduyK Nmailto:spam-filtering-comments@iup.edu i8@8 NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH <A@< Default Paragraph Font.U@. Hyperlink >*B*phS SS S 9>tS XX8@0(  B S  ?:;>?C)35@&lu>-7B I J P U  U 3:KUPZ>HPghU spuleiojrmcferrPC:\My Documents\acpac\documents\Spam 12-5-02 IUP Technology Committee Update.docjrmcferr9Z:\acpac\Spam 12-5-02 IUP Technology Committee Update.doc@DtS @@UnknownGz Times New Roman5Symbol3& z Arial"0h1,l1,l$,l~!20ds S 3H=IUP Technology Committee Update  Spam Filtering Trial PeriodspuleiojrmcferrRoot Entry F`Ԟh:0 Data  1TableWordDocument" "'()ristopher G. Bennett cbennett$Mr. Christopher G. Bennett cbennettArchived ACPAC FileArchived ACPAC File՜.+,D՜.+,X@  4Ls 2 Root Entry Fnt0 Data  1TableWordDocument" "$%&# $  !"#%SummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8 (CompObjjObjectPoolc*c*Anti-Spam-report-12-5-02$cbennett Mr. Christopher G. Bennett$cbennett Mr. Christopher G. Bennett՜.+,D՜.+,X@  4Ls 2 @IUP Technology Committee Update Spam Filtering Trial Period Title0$,4@HT      ( _PID_HLINKSEktContentID64EktContentLanguageEktFolderId64 EktQuickLinkEktContentTypeEktFolderName EktCmsPath EktExpiryType EktDateCreated EktDateModified EktTaxCategory EktCmsSizeEktSearchableEktEDescriptionekttaxonomyenabledEktShowEventsA Vg'mailto:spam-filtering-comments@iup.eduZ!http://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilitiesAX ;DownloadAsset.aspx?id=88129e@Rqs@`P"tdArchived ACPAC File @IUP Technology Committee Update Spam Filtering Trial Period Title@HP\dp P     _PID_HLINKSEktContentID64EktContentLanguageEktFolderId64 EktQuickLinkEktContentTypeEktFolderName EktCmsPath EktExpiryType EktDateCreated EktDateModified EktTaxCategory EktCmsSizeEktSearchableEktEDescriptionekttaxonomyenabledEktShowEvents EktInPermA Vg'mailto:spam-filtering-comments@iup.eduZ!http://www.iup.edu/tsc/utilitiesAX ;DownloadAsset.aspx?id=88129e@Rqs@`P"td Summary Archived ACPAC FileArchivEktTaxCategoryed ACPAC File# .1Root Entry F+'t0Data  1TableWordDocument"SummaryInformation(\DocumentSummaryInformation8 CompObjjObjectPoolc*c*  !"  FMicrosoft Word Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89qOh+'0< < TH \x@F#@`M@@~Anti-Spam-report-12-5-02$Mr. Ch