[committee] Non-comformance with UWA Spam Policy

[Matt Johnston]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:53:47PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> UCC is still one of the top senders of outgoing spam. Looking into this,
> it's due to the UCC's non-conformance with this part of the UWA Spam Policy:
>   Tagged spam will not be forwarded to an external email address, such as
>   a personal hotmail address.  This is to prevent the University from being
>   blacklisted as a sender of spam.
> 
> Typically the UCC sends over 1000 spams out per day. I've looked into it,
> and this is almost entirely tagged SPAM being forwarded out to external
> member addresses. An increasing number of internet sites use the amount of
> "spam" arriving as metric when deciding whether or not to blacklist a site;
> the fact that the mail is forwarded often does not matter.

Could you give us some numbers on the false-positive rates
of the UCS spam tagging? That will let affected members (and
ourselves) make an informed decision as to how unforwarded
mail should be handled.

Thanks,
Matt