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A quarantine-y little problem
We wish more of your employers would take Saga’s responsible attitude to spam.
A mole forwards a memo from the company’s IT department that is an example to us all: ‘Unsolicited email is becoming an increasing problem across the company,’ it says. ‘The content of this type of email can be offensive, and dealing with it will take up recipients’ valuable time. It is therefore important that we minimise, as far as possible, the amount of spam being received.
‘To this end we have introduced a new facility that classifies emails into three categories: spam, maybe spam, not spam. Emails that fall into the ‘not spam’ category will be forwarded to your inbox, as normal. Those that are categorised as ‘maybe spam’ will be forwarded to your inbox, but the subject line will be
prefixed with “maybe spam”. The emails identified as spam will be quarantined and not sent to your inbox.’
All very sensible. ‘However, given the possibility that some legitimate emails may be wrongly identified as spam, the email system will inform you on a daily basis that emails addressed to you have been identified as spam and therefore not delivered. It then gives you the option of viewing these emails.’
Excellent! No more time wasting. Except when you have to check your spam to see if it’s spam. Or not.
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