SPAM Filter Setup Procedures

Introduction - Galaxy has recently installed a sophisticated SPAM filter mechanism that employs three powerful tools.

1. Galaxy subscribes to several lists that are referred to as Real-Time Blackhole Lists (RBL). These lists are updated (in real-time) with addresses of know spammers. Our mail servers reject connections from addresses on these lists.

2. Galaxy has recently deployed an internal SPAM filter that employs a high end Sun Enterprise Server to perform over 800 individual checks on each e-mail message that is received by Galaxy. These checks are used to develop a SPAM score, and messages with a high score are considered to be obvious SPAM and are rejected.

3. Messages with only a moderate score are probably SPAM, but we deliver these messages with the indicator of [SPAM?] inserted in the subject line. Individual users can setup their mail program (or AstroMail) to automatically move these messages to a SPAM folder.

Please take the time to customize your e-mail program to take advantage of this new [SPAM?] indicator using the simple instructions below. We are confident this will dramatically improve your e-mail enjoyment and productivity.

Windows

Click on the Email Program that you use:

Outlook Express 4.0

Outlook Express 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

Outlook 98, 2000, 2002

Netscape 4.5, 4.7, 6.0, 7.0

Eudora Light 3.0, Pro 4.3, 5

Macintosh

Click on the Email Program that you use:

Outlook Express

Netscape

Eudora