Spam E-mail Information
Responding to the constant problem of Spam and recognizing the challenges of reducing it, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) continually investigates ways to prevent campus E-mail inboxes from becoming inundated with Spam. In 2003, after assessing the campus' needs and evaluating possible Spam reduction options, an antispam tagging service was activated on campus.
In January of 2006, OIT announced the next step in its AntiSpam management plan. The system was previously configured to quarantine all UTA-identified spam from delivery to your email inbox, which meant no longer dealing with identified spam messages. The management plan did not adequately handle legitimate messages that were incorrectly quarantined. This has changed! The new quarantine system allows you to view, release, or delete messages that are identified by the system as Spam.
View the quarantine online. Use your NetID to log in and manage your personal quarantine at https://quarantine.uta.edu Let the quarantine notify you. A summary of messages quarantined will periodically be sent to your E-mail inbox. The summary message contains links to view and release messages from your quarantine.
We recognize that it is impossible to correctly identify all messages with 100% accuracy. Therefore, the quarantine is a beneficial tool that can be used to personally retrieve any misidentified messages. We will continue to fine tune our process over time. You can help us by forwarding any Spam that does make its way into your mailbox to spam@uta.edu.
Please note: The 'This is not Spam' button will release any selected email(s) and they will be delivered to your inbox. This does not mean that future emails from the same person will not be quarantined. Quarantine items do not need to be deleted, but can be if you desire. Anything more than 14 days old will automatically be purged from the quarantine. Each user's quarantine will automatically purge items from oldest to newest to keep the size under 100MB per user.
The summary email will be delivered to each user every three days.
For further assistance please contact the helpdesk at (817)272-2208