Isn’t Office Assistant your friendliest best friend.
My university had an unexpected, not so welcome suprise. Here is an excerpt from a mailing I received, explaining the situation.
Over the last few days, some employees and students at TU Delft have had regular problems sending e-mail correspondence to external relations. This is because the central e-mail servers at TU Delft have been regularly included on the Spamcop blacklist in recent weeks. Spamcop is a system used by a large number of organisations to combat ’spam’ or unsolicited e-mail. Spamcop checks the source of an e-mail message and if it is included on a blacklist, all e-mails from that source are blocked by the receiving party. After a thorough investigation, the ICT department has discovered the cause of this problem.
We mark unsolicited e-mail as ‘*****Spam*****’ before sending it on to the addressee. In cases where the person in question has activated his or her Office Assistant, an e-mail is sent back. Over the holiday period, so many of these ’spam’ emails were sent back and forth that we ended up being registered on the Spamcop blacklist.
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