Using new filter, ITS is catching 200,000 spam e-mails a day
If there have been fewer junk e-mails about genital enlargements and paid Caribbean vacations to delete from Yale mail inboxes lately, students probably have Information Technology Services to thank for the relief.
In response to the worldwide surge in spam in recent months — a trend propelled by the increase in “computer bots” controlled by spammers — ITS installed additional software in its e-mail spam-filtering system early last month that is dramatically curbing the influx of unwanted mail, ITS representatives announced this week.
The software, called Cloudmark...
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