This is the only public information we have been sent about the status of the project. In the Notes client, you can see the header information mentioned. If you are at your Inbox list of messages, select a message by clicking on it once, right click on it, select Document Properties, click on the 2nd tab, scroll down the list of field names in the left frame, to find all the fields whose names start with X such as the one mentioned. - Nancy N Colyar 06/04/2004 01:54 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- During the Spring Technical Contacts meeting, OCS announced an anti-spam project which involved the purchase and installation of anti-spam filtering software. We are pleased to report that we have implemented a cluster of anti-spam servers which are currently assigning a spam probability to all messages addressed to @lsu.edu. Messages that rank 99% or higher in spam probability are quarantined and not delivered. We have not observed any false positives in this high probability range. Messages with less than 99% spam probability are delivered with a new header that denotes its spam rating. Individuals who use a mail client capable of filtering on headers can take advantage of a message's "spam rating" immediately. This capability is available in most of the newer versions of POP3 or IMAP clients. The new header looks similar to this: X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=XXXXXXXXXIII, Probability=93%, Report=....... The Gauge= keyword will be followed by a series of X's and I's that denote the spam probability for that particular message. Thus a message with a 45% spam probability will have Gauge=XXXXIIIII. Please toggle on headers to familiarize yourself with the new header content before writing filtering rules. We advise that you move messages to a folder so that you can peruse the content before deleting. You can change the action to 'delete' after you develop confidence in the accuracy of the spam ratings. The anti-spam project continues as we observe and tweak performance parameters to find the optimum configuration that will handle our peak message load. A website devoted to e-mail and additional anti-spam features will be available at the end of the month. Janet Shih LSU Computing Services