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...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...
...SpamAssassin software which HASCS made availabe to students and faculty last year also identifies many of the e-mails sent out by the Sobig virus, though it does not delete them, said Steen...
...SpamAssassin filter identifies a lot of [Sobig e-mails], but students still have to check their spam folders,” Steen said. “The e-mails add up very quickly, and they might fill the inbox and not allow in any more mail...
While Webmail currently has a feature to blacklist certain e-mail addresses identified as spammers, SpamAssassin can be used with the Eudora and Pine e-mail clients as well...
...SpamAssassin has been successfully used at a number of other universities and corporations, and can be turned on at the HASCS website or by typing “blockmail” at the fas% prompt...