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...effort to fight internet viruses and spam, FAS computing services is testing a mail filter that does not permit users to opt-out and that blocks certain file extensions for attachments on all fas.harvard.edu accounts...
...viruses and spam take up people’s time and take up space on the system so [the new measures] are good for the clients and good for the system,” said Kevin S. Davis ’98, the director of residential computing...
Computing services also began a two-week test of the “widely used and respected” anti-spam filter Spamhaus last week, said Davis, who is also a Crimson editor...
Davis admitted that there have been some reports of “false positives” or e-mails that were blocked even though they were not spam...
...anti-spam system has false positives just as there are things that are spam that get through,” Davis said. “There is no optimal solution...