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Re: Not a Microsoft message



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>So it seems that after about 1,300 students at Harvard received the same
>spam message from a company recruiting seniors, the university is trying
>to find a way to prevent people from outside the university community from
>"broadcasting indiscrimately to large numbers of individuals" (which is
>it's policy for on-campus groups). 

Mmmmm ... that may tread on some censorship issues.

How would they do it? Create a campus-wide email filter (that's pushing 
it ...)? Or simply ask companies that do spam not to (better, because if 
the request is documented, companies have to comply with that request 
under law, at least from my understanding).

Spamming sucks, but it is a fact of net life and we have ways of dealing 
with it just as we have ways of dealing with the flood of junk mail.

I wonder what recourses sysadmins have, though, if the mail server 
crashes due to a sudden flood of spam (i.e. lost time and money).