[committee] Non-comformance with UWA Spam Policy

[David Adam]

Grahame,

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> 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.
>
> Can we have an estimate as to when this will be fixed? The policy is here,
> for your reference:
>   http://www.uwa.edu.au/it/policy/existing?f=102683

As you may be aware ;-) this has been fixed to our satisfaction.

David Adam
UCC 0x20nd President
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au