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Update on Improved Handling of Spam at MIT

In response to the recent increase in spam email that slipped past MIT's existing SpamAssassin filtering system, IS&T has added new technology to the campus email system to improve handling of spam email. All incoming campus email now goes through a cluster of four Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall devices. This change was made on an experimental basis last Wednesday (August 2nd) to MIT's central mail system and expanded to our email infrastructure over the weekend.

Barracuda Networks maintains a staff dedicated to developing new rules and techniques for identifying spam email. They provide hourly updates in response to the constantly changing techniques of spammers. Community members are already seeing a vast reduction of spam email in their inboxes as a result of these devices. IS&T understands the importance of email and its management and will continue to work to provide reliable and robust email services.

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