SPAM · Sep 18, 07:42 PM
We’ve been fighting a lot with spam lately…new firewall has spam blocking built in but it is like the corkscrew in a swiss army knife..it works, it comes with the package, but it’s not great. We’re working on making it better and hoping that we can borrow some rules from other school boards. Since school started we have received about 600 000 spam messages and about 40 000 legitimate messages. I tried to explain the problem to someone like this…blocking spam is like having a fire hose turned on you and you are trying to keep yourself dry with a dinner plate. I’d like to refine that a little…the person with the hose is a little bit drunk and can’t be counted on to hold the hose still. Further, about 100 times an hour someone behind you will ask you to reach into the stream and grab a very specific drop of water. If you’re getting spam in your inbox, please be patient…your IT department is fighting a moving target while still trying to make sure you get all your email.
— Sean Heuchert
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