| Did you know currently Algonquin College receives about 2 million emails each month. About 900,000 of them are already filtered out as Spam or viruses. |
| What is Spam |
| Whenever you enter your Email address into any form on the web, it is stored in the database of whatever web site you entered it into. There is always a possibility that another company might get access to your Email address somehow, through a variety of possible methods. These companies generate lists of thousands of Email addresses collected from forms all over the web. They then send mass amounts of Emails out to all those addresses, generally in the form of advertisements. This is called 'spam'. Or, 'spamming'.
Another form of spam is when one individual or company repeatedly sends huge amounts of Emails to the same recipient in a short period of time.
For more information on your Spam/Virus Settings, go to, SPAM/Virus Settings (Link accessible only on Algonquin network) Login to change your SPAM/Virus filter settings.
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| ***Upcoming Improvements**** |
Information Technology Services will be introducing a new version of our spam filter system “Can-it” that will provide better spam filtering in the coming weeks. As this tool is configurable for each user (i.e. you can set the level of “spam tolerance” for yourself), we will be holding information sessions about how to use the tool some time in early fall.
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| ***Redirecting SPAM using Email Filters**** |
As of January 2nd, 2007, Information Technology Services implemented a feature which tags suspected "SPAM" emails with the word "Bulk" in the Subject Line.
Click here for more Details on the next step of redirecting the SPAM email with filters. |
