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How is it determined that an e-mail is tagged or treated as spam?

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How is it determined that an e-mail is tagged or treated as spam?

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The PureMessage filtering software applies a series of tests to each incoming e-mail. This series of tests determines the probability that a particular message is spam. If a user is taking part in UWSPAM Quarantining, e-mails with a probability rate of at least 20% and less than 50%, display this information in the Internet Headers section of each e-mail. For users taking part in UW Spam Tagging, e-mails with a probability rate of at least 20% display this information in the Internet Headers section of each e-mail. The Internet Headers section of each e-mail lists the probability that an e-mail may be spam in percentage format (i.e. 50%) and as a series of X’s, with each X representing 10% (i.e. XXXXX for 50%). See How to Create Folders and Rules for Moving Messages in Microsoft Outlook (www.uwyo.edu/askit/displaydoc.asp?askitdocid=155&parentid=1) for assistance with the creation of a spam filtering rule based on the Internet Header information. If a user has chosen to take part in onl

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