From: Aron Roberts (aron_at_socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 14:48:53 PDT
At 6:43 -0700 2003-07-14, Tim Heidinger wrote:
>Anyone else notice a large increase in junk mail on UCLink in the
>last two weeks? Sure, it's been getting worse for awhile but seems
>like something happened recently that resulted in lots (50+ /day) of
>junk mail...
At 10:22 -0700 2003-07-14, Eugene Darling wrote:
>This has become a major problem for us too. One person in our
>office was out two days plus a weekend and had 859 junk messages
>when she came back. I have heard that UCLINK is planning some sort
>of spam filtering system. Does anyone know anything about it? (I
>know that Socrates is already doing this.)
The latest public description of anti-spam plans for UCLink and
Socrates that I'm aware of appears in the following article:
"Antispam measures coming to UCLink and Socrates"
http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Spring2003/news.antispam.html
On May 1, 2003, the campus's academic shared Unix system, Socrates,
officially started "tagging" probable spam messages by adding two
"X-Ucb-" X-headers to those messages. In addition, messages with a
high degree of spam probability also receive a [SPAM:XXXXXXX...]
prefix in the Subject line.
Details regarding this tagging, including how to configure e-mail
client programs to detect and act on these tags, can be found in
Socrates' Spam FAQ:
"Socrates and Spam"
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/Help/Email/spam/
My understanding is that message tagging, in addition to one or
more server-side filtering options, is anticipated to be implemented
for the UCLink system sometime during this summer. Perhaps one of my
colleagues on the UCLink service team might wish to comment further
in a follow-up response to the Micronet list?
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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