Spam.

[Dr Peter Young]

A very minor niggle, considering the excellent performance of Orpheus:

One of the things expected after the upgrade of the servers was better
spam filtering. There is indeed a very small volume of spam still
coming, but it's still coming in about the same amount as before the
upgrade. Would it be helpful to forward any spam received to Paul to
help educate the filters?

With best wishes,

Peter.

[Paul Vigay]

Post by Dr Peter Young
One of the things expected after the upgrade of the servers was better
spam filtering. There is indeed a very small volume of spam still
coming, but it's still coming in about the same amount as before the
upgrade. Would it be helpful to forward any spam received to Paul to
help educate the filters?

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if the spam filters have been upgraded
yet.
We were concentrating on the server move and getting everything running
smoothly in its new home before we start tinkering too much - otherwise
we'd have two variables if anything went wrong.

I'll have a word with my sysadmin and see what he's upgraded, other than
the server kernels and WebMail.

Paul

[Dr Peter Young]

Post by Paul Vigay

Post by Dr Peter Young
One of the things expected after the upgrade of the servers was better
spam filtering. There is indeed a very small volume of spam still
coming, but it's still coming in about the same amount as before the
upgrade. Would it be helpful to forward any spam received to Paul to
help educate the filters?

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if the spam filters have been upgraded
yet.
We were concentrating on the server move and getting everything running
smoothly in its new home before we start tinkering too much - otherwise
we'd have two variables if anything went wrong.
I'll have a word with my sysadmin and see what he's upgraded, other than
the server kernels and WebMail.

Noted, and I'll keep watch, optimistically :-)

With best wishes,

Peter.

[Tennant Stuart]

Post by Paul Vigay

Post by Dr Peter Young
One of the things expected after the upgrade of the servers was better
spam filtering. There is indeed a very small volume of spam still
coming, but it's still coming in about the same amount as before the
upgrade. Would it be helpful to forward any spam received to Paul to
help educate the filters?

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure if the spam filters have been
upgraded yet. We were concentrating on the server move and getting
everything running smoothly in its new home before we start tinkering
too much - otherwise we'd have two variables if anything went wrong.
I'll have a word with my sysadmin and see what he's upgraded, other than
the server kernels and WebMail.

Fair enough, but I still agree with Peter that it would be a good idea if
you set up an email address that we could forward bad spam to. Then every
so often you could automatically upgrade the filters to block those which
have been forwarded by more than a set number of different subscribers.


Tennant