An update on spam
Calvin's Spam Firewall filters email coming into campus. Although much of the spam is blocked, some of it still makes it through. Take a look at these statistics for one day, January 10, 2009. These numbers do not include email going to the domain students.calvin.edu (StudentMail) because that is handled by Google directly.
| Blocked because too many emails were coming in from the same source | 433 | |
| Blocked because the email address is not valid | 6,373 | |
| Blocked because the email was identified as being spam | 61,555 | |
| Blocked because the email contained a virus | 15 | |
| *Quarantined | 153 | |
| Total blocked or quarantined | 68,529 | 82.2% |
| Total allowed | 14,920 | 17.8% |
| Total received | 83,449 |
Still receiving lots of spam?
Unfortunately, spammers are aggressive. If we set our spam filter more aggressively, it would also block good email. It is our goal to block as much spam as possible without blocking any good email. If you are still receiving what you consider to be a lot of spam please contact the CIT HelpDesk. We'll help you look at ways of reducing the spam you receive.
* Faculty and staff who use Calvin's Spam Firewall can quarantine incoming email based on a quarantine score. Quarantined email stays in the Spam Firewall Quarantine until the users goes in the quarantine and either releases or deletes the email.
Additional additional information on Calvin's Spam Firewall.
Calvin's Take I.T. Home program
Calvin Information Technology has opted to extend limited home use rights, in compliance with licensing agreements, to faculty and staff members of Calvin College for certain software. The Take I.T. Program permits the installation and use of Microsoft Office and/or Wolfram Research Mathematica on a personally owned computer for Calvin College work-related purposes only. Seminary faculty and staff members are only eligible for Microsoft Office.
You are not purchasing the software. If Calvin College and/or the vendor terminates the Take I.T. Home Program or if your employment status changes you will need to delete the software from your personal computer. When you delete the software or upgrade to a newer version you will need to return the old media to CIT. You may retain the media until either of the above occurs.
Only limited technical support is provided by the Calvin College HelpDesk: Feature Level support only; general questions; no CIT documentation. Help will not be provided if install "does not work" or "breaks" the computer. Patches will not be made available - you must download any patches.
The administration fee and cost of the media is $10 for Microsoft Office and it may take up to 5 days to process the request. There is no charge for Mathematica.
For Microsoft Office you must agree that:
- You will read and abide by the license agreement(s) associated with this Software.
- You understand that if Calvin College does not renew this agreement or exercise the buyout option or otherwise purchase perpetual licenses for the Software, then you must delete or remove the Software licensed under this agreement from my computer at the time the agreement expires or is terminated and return the media.
- You understand that if you leave Calvin College You will delete this software from your computer and return the media (CDs or DVD) to Calvin Information Technology.
- Your unique Volume License Key is confidential and you will not share it with anyone.
- If you share a computer on campus, you are the primary user of the computer.
- You understand that you are licensed to use the software for college-related purposes only; you are not licensed to use the software for personal or commercial purposes.
- You understand that you are the only person licensed to use this software.
- You will not make any copies of the media (CDs or DVD).
- You will install this software on one system only.
- You understand the minimum specifications required to run the software.
- You will install the software at your own risk and Calvin College is not responsible for the successful installation of it.
- You understand that no technical support is provided by Microsoft in association with your work-at-home use and that only limited technical support is provided by the Calvin College HelpDesk (described as follows): Feature Level support only, general questions, no CIT documentation. No help provided if install “does not work” or “breaks” the computer. No patches will be made available - user must download any patches.
If you can not agree to these regulations please consider purchasing the software. The Campus Store offers Microsoft Office at a discounted price.
For more information please see The Take I.T. Home Program.
