Unsolicited Commercial E-mail or spam is very annoying to Mathnet users. Mathnet has installed the Spam Assassin software by Justin Mason et al to help you manage your spam. Please be aware of the following points:

• Per University policy and good information technology practice, Mathnet cannot refuse to deliver mail to you unless it is known to present a significant risk of actual harm (e.g. viruses). You, the recipient, must positively choose how you want your spam to be managed.
• Spam Assassin does a good job of recognizing spam, but it is not perfect. With the default settings it lets through a certain fraction of spam, and of particular importance, it may occasionally classify as spam mail that you want to see. Thus it is essential that you check your spam before deleting it.
• You can help Spam Assassin do a better job of keeping mail that you want and diverting mail that you don't want, by changing the default settings. In the FAQ please see the sections on blacklists, whitelists, and the Bayesian classifier.
• The spam does not disappear. It is tagged and deposited in a separate mailbox for easy disposal, so you do not see (most) spam when reading mail. You need to delete your spam; otherwise the onslaught will fill up your disc quota.

Instructions:

• Spam FAQ
• Detailed Instructions