Hold on folks, we're in for a bumpy ride.
Rumor has it that the vaunted Phase II of the Spam Flail-ex is about to begin. Several sources from an east coast facility say that "suspected spam" quarantining will start in the near future. As reported here earlier, users will have a fixed amount of time to respond to messages put into the quarantined area before it is deleted. If the user is unable, for whatever reason, to access his mailbox during the quarantine period, the E-mail is deleted. Messages determined to be "known spam", as opposed to suspected spam, will be dealt with even more swiftly -- it will be deleted immediately with no notification to the intended recipient.
We can only hope that the tagging debacle of a few months ago does not portend a quarantine storm where dozens of legitimate E-mails per day end up erroneously identified as spam.
Anyone who observed the monumental failure of spam tagging is surely holding their breath for the quarantine phase. We can only hope that the powers-that-be noticed the problems with tagging and have tweaked the spam identification process to prevent the same false-positive problem from occurring with this new phase.
We can always hope.
