How does Monash identify spam?
All emails comprise of two parts; email ‘headers’ which describe the email (TO: address, FROM: address etc.) and the email body which is the content of the email which you see. Much of the contents of email headers is transparent to the user (it is hidden by the software you use to view the email). The software which Monash uses to identify Spam is known as SpamAssassin. This software has been configured to add in email header fields to tell the email client or email server software (e.g. Netscape Messenger) whether the email sould be considered as Spam. This process is know as Spam markup. The original contents (body) of the email message is left intact. The following headers will be added to all emails which are being checked to see if they are Spam. In this case the email has been given a ‘low’ Spam score of 2 (2 stars).
