AICT had a junk-mail fltering tool already. Why did it change?
The original junkfilter was written from scratch by George Carmichael as a proof of concept. Though it worked very well, the decision was made to go with SpamAssassin as it is as close to a “standard” spam filtering tool as you are going to get. SpamAssassin is open source software and is thus maintained by the community of users as a whole. Thus it is constantly being updated and improved, eliminating the need for an analyst on campus to constantly monitor and upgrade the service.
