A small miracle
Posted on July 31, 2004 @ 13:19 in Work
I had dreaded the day I would have to open my mailbox at work. Including our holiday it would have been close to six week since I had last checked it. I figured it would be filled to the brim with spam. So when I finally forced myself to open Outlook at work last Wednesday I was pretty surprised to only see 407 unread messages. I checked how many messages had been filtered into the spam-folder. Just 34. And scrolling through the subjects of the unread messages revealed that only three actual spams had made it into my inbox. A small miracle. The university sysadmins must have tightened the spam filters when I wasn't there. Great!
Of course, I could have done without the 60 or so automated messages from the sysadmins telling me that both my Outlook mailbox and my homedir are over their quota. Sending those messages daily won't help cure the problem, especially not when the user of that account is on holiday. They should rather talk to the department staff who insist on sending us their newsletters as huge Word attachments bloated from included images and loads of styling. I recon that would reduce intranet traffic and storage needs significantly. Oh well... I just need to process some 300 messages now, so that's pretty doable.
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