New filters may thwart spammers
Upgraded e-mail filters installed Tuesday may dramatically decrease the amount of spam reaching Yale mailboxes, a preliminary analysis suggests.
During a one-day test last Friday, filters with the revamped software caught 30 percent more spam than did the filters that Yale has been using until now, Chief Information Officer Philip Long said. If the test proves accurate, Information Technology Services may be able to curb the flood of junk e-mail that attacked University accounts over the summer.
Long said that data from a single day is not enough to declare victory, and...
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