{"id":7204,"date":"2017-04-03T02:31:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/news-995\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T02:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:31:05","slug":"news-995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/news-995\/","title":{"rendered":"All they needed was a little motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

This hospital’s email admins have implemented spam alerts — but they don’t want false-positives to wait for a daily quarantine message, reports a pilot fish on the scene.<\/p>\n

“They decided to send a ‘you have potential spam’ email each time a piece of potential spam arrived,” grumbles fish.<\/p>\n

“So our users, instead of the constant flow of spam, received a constant flow of you-may-have-spam alerts, which required them to open their quarantine and deal with it. Needless to say, this actually took more time than if the spam was just allowed in.<\/p>\n

“One guy I worked with called the admins and explained that this policy wasn’t very good — and was met with ‘Well, we feel it is and we’re not changing it.’<\/p>\n

“So for the next users that called in to complain about the spam alerts, he set up a rule that forwarded their you-may-have-spam emails to the email admin group.<\/p>\n

“The spam handling was changed that day.”<\/p>\n

Sharky wants to motivate you to send your story.<\/strong> Email your true tale of IT life to me at sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>, and you’ll score a sharp Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today’s tale at Sharky’s Google+ community<\/strong><\/a>, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives<\/strong><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This hospital’s email admins have implemented spam alerts — but they don’t want false-positives to wait for a daily quarantine message, reports a pilot fish on the scene.<\/p>\n

“They decided to send a ‘you have potential spam’ email each time a piece of potential spam arrived,” grumbles fish.<\/p>\n

“So our users, instead of the constant flow of spam, received a constant flow of you-may-have-spam alerts, which required them to open their quarantine and deal with it. Needless to say, this actually took more time than if the spam was just allowed in.<\/p>\n

“One guy I worked with called the admins and explained that this policy wasn’t very good — and was met with ‘Well, we feel it is and we’re not changing it.’<\/p>\n

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