What is OIT doing about it?
OIT provides several barriers to incoming spam, however, the recent increase in spam traffic is spurring us to update our defensive strategy. Until recently, our junk mail defenses had been directed at traffic coming from outside the university. All e-mail messages claiming to come from @umd.edu e-mail addresses were delivered without being evaluated by spam filters. Spam techniques have evolved and increasingly use forged sender addresses in order to disguise spam as a local message. On July 28, 2009, we changed the spam filter settings to filter all incoming e-mail messages, even the ones with @umd.edu sender addresses, unless they are sent from an e-mail server on the University of Maryland’s computer network.
