NEW!!! SPAM-FILTERING SERVICE!!

ENC is rolling out a new spam-filtering service! In a few days you will notice messages in your Inbox with the tag ****ENC SPAM**** in the subject line. These messages have been marked by ENC's email system as spam, and you can safely delete them. To save time however, you can configure your email client to delete them automatically or place them in a "quarantine" folder for later inspection. ENC's two supported email clients are Thunderbird (for internal users only) and WebMail. Here's how to set them up for spam filtering:

Thunderbird:

1. In the Menu bar, click Tools->Message Filters
2. In the Message Filters window, be sure that your ENC mail account is selected in the "Filters for" box
3. Click New to create a new filter rule
4. Give the filter a name, such as "Spam Filter"
5. In the the empty box next to the boxes labeled Subject and Contains, enter the spam text string ****ENC SPAM****
6. Under Perform these actions click the first option - "Move to Folder", then select the Trash folder from the drop-down list. You can also select a different folder (or create a new one) to use a quarantine instead.

Webmail:

• In the Menu bar, click Options
• Under Mail Management click Filters
• Under Rule Definition create a new filter rule:
  • Click the "Subject" box, type ****ENC SPAM**** in the text box
  • Select whether to delete the message or move it to another folder
  • Finally, click Create to create the rule. From now on, every time you log into WebMail your spam will be filtered!

Spam:

Spam is unsolicited "junk" e-mail sent to large numbers of people to promote products or services. As e-mail costs close to nothing to send, companies have been taking this approach to send as much as they can to as many people as they can find.

Tips to Help Reduce Spam

Don't post your e-mail address online, use a separate email address.

Do not supply your ENC email address on any website. The use of your ENC email account should be college related. Spammer software scans newsgroups, web sites, and web forums looking for e-mail addresses. If you post in such places, disguise your e-mail address, never use your personal email address. Create a new email address for this purpose. This way you can quickly go through the email in this account to filter out spam and your main personal email address won't be as clogged with spam. You can create free email accounts at Yahoo or Hotmail.

Don’t give out your e-mail address unless you know how it will be used.

Read the site’s privacy policy to learn about the company and how they use the information they gather from you. If they don’t have a privacy statement, you probably shouldn’t trust them with your address.

Never buy anything advertised in spam.

Don't visit their sites or ask for more information. Remember, if you respond to their spam, you're encouraging them to continue spamming. Even if you happen to be looking for a lower mortgage rate, don’t look for it in junk e-mail. Chances are the services advertised are bogus anyway. Respected loan companies don’t randomly flood inboxes.
There is another reason not to buy anything from a company that spam: over 95% of spam offers are scams! In fact, not responding to spam is the single most effective way to not get scammed on the Internet.

Do not reply to Spam

This just confirms to the Spammer that they found a legitimate email address.

Update your address book.

Make sure that the people you want to have contact with are in your address book: your friends, family, business associates, and companies you’ve requested e-mail from. Most e-mail systems have a filter, so messages may not be delivered into a recipient's inbox unless the sender's e-mail address is included in their address book.

Resist the temptation to unsubscribe.

Sometimes clicking a link that promises to unsubscribe you lets the spammer know that your e-mail address is valid, which means you might be spammed even more.

Remove your email address from your website.

If you have a website, and have your email address listed or linked, you can expect to be spammed. Powerful address-harvesting robots will spider your site and extract them. So remove them wherever possible and use web-based forms instead. This will drastically cut down the amount of spam you receive if you have a website.

Never forward chain e-mails.

Do not send or forward chain letters. E-mails that claims that they generate revenue for a certain cause are capable of tracking the e-mail addresses. These e-mails are commonly referred to as a chain mail and are commonly false and help individuals get additional e-mail address for spam.

Filter your email

Most of the email programs have a filter which could be the key to managing your email effectively. It may take a short time to figure out how to do this, but it's definitely worthwhile. Consider acquiring multiple email addresses for different purposes. This helps you to identify different sources and senders, and lets you filter more effectively.