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...screens incoming e-mails for specific terms—such as “click here” and “pennies a day”—identified as common in unsolicited commercial messages. If the message has enough flagged terms, it is labeled as spam and can be redirected into a separate folder for users to weed through at their pleasure...
This form of filtering is one of the less-obtrusive methods of preventing spam because it avoids misidentifying legitimate e-mail more so than many other programs, according to Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis...
...There’s always a trade-off between having a lot of spam and having a lot of false positives,” Davis said. “In our environment where people need to get messages quickly, it’s better to err on the side of picking up less spam, and getting legitimate mail...
Preventing spam consistently ranks as a top concern for Harvard e-mail users, Davis said—especially first-years, who sometimes find spam in their mailboxes the first time they sign...
...It’s a much demanded option,” Davis said. “Any e-mail address out there these days gets spam...