2007-10-23

Starting at 12:00 Noon (EDT) today, all mail scored >= 15 by SpamAssassin will be silently dropped. Neither the alleged sender or the final recipient will be notified of this action. A copy of all dropped messages will be kept in quarantine for a minimum of 14 days. Mail scoring >= 5 is considered to be spam.

This decision was made on Wednesday, October 17th, in consultation with the Systems Policy Advisory Committee after 22 months of spam scoring (but no default filtering) showed SpamAssassin to be reliable and reasonably configured, with the occasional false positive never scoring > 10.

Questions or concerns about this new policy should be directed to guru@cs.brandeis.edu. For more information on how we scan mail, and how you can implement personal filters, see the Mail Settings page.