Why cannot Macquarie have a stricter spam filtering policy ?
Spam filtering is not an exact science – there is no way for software to absolutely know the legitimacy of an email. Continuing to tighten rules to reduce spam entering your inbox heightens the risk of getting the balance of incorrectly filtering legitimate emails wrong, the effectiveness of the filtering can be further improved by familiarising yourself with and adopting work practises that are on this website. Macquarie University has a large range of diverse disciplines, what is spam to you could be legitimate to others, Macquarie has in the past made email addresses publically available, these have found their way on to unwanted mailing lists. Macquarie has many different email servers in place, internal emails between these different systems pass through the same spam filters, whereas internal email within the same email system, Groupwise for example do not.
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