Sport and Technology

At work, we recently upgraded our version of Spam Assassin. Spam Assassin, for those who don’t know, is a tool that will evaluate an email, including the subject and sender address, and give it a score which tells you how “spammy” your message will appear to spam filters. It will look for a lot of the things we think are obvious (e.g., emails about Viagra or other ED drugs, money schemes, porn), as well as other, less obvious, triggers (e.g., ratio of text to images, URL which is an IP Address, etc.). This tool is also used by many companies as a part of their spam filter which will help decide whether your email gets through to the intended recipient. I should also note that these tests only look at the message, subject and from address of the email. There are other tests that can be conducted, also using Spam Assassin, that take into account additional information such as the reputation of the sender and related IP Addresses.

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