Poynter Online
Go


Top Story

Young Journalists Use Facebook Ads to Reach Prospective Employers
Most Recent Articles
Most E-mailed
Recent Comments
Recent Tags
Community Activity

Poynter Training
Poynter Seminars
Small, in-person training experiences.
News University
Today's most popular courses on NewsU, Poynter's e-learning site for journalists.
Webinars
Our online classroom is just a click away. Learn more.
All Webinars

Poynter Forums

The Evil Done by E-mail Filters

Page 1 of 1 
E-mail Filters
7/12/2002 2:53:44 AM
Posted By: Angshuman Das

I think spam filters will always be a debatable topic because of the risk of accidentally booting out legitimate mail. I was a critic of mail server filters until I started receiving, sometime ago, a lot of spam in my official mail, some of it the unmentionable kind (I would spare the list the examples).

You can imagine the discomfort of getting such mail in your workplace. I have tried to block some addresses and "unsubscribe" (without ever subscribing in the first place), but these messages have stuck to my mail account like a leech.

Now, a lot of the mail come from hotmail.com, msn.com and yahoo.com domains. Should I try to keep out spam by having the network administrator block these domains on the server level?

Any remedy?

Angshuman Das

Page 1 of 1 
Return to Previous Page

Username
Password
New User? Signup Now
Poynter Careers
More media jobs