CITES Spam Control Stops 5 Million Spam Messages

While users of the new CITES Spam Control service are individually rejoicing about the lack of clutter in their email inboxes, CITES is celebrating the blocking of 5 million spam emails in just 30 days. “We've heard from a lot of users that CSC is saving them up to half an hour per day,” said Mike Corn, director of security services and information privacy at CITES.

CITES Spam Control is a service available at no cost to anyone with a NetId@uiuc.edu email address. Since it was made available to the Urbana campus community on April 15, over 15,200 faculty, staff and students have signed up for the CITES Spam Control service.

CITES Spam Control automatically deletes email messages that contain viruses and allows users to quarantine or automatically delete spam email messages. In the 30 day period from May 13 to June 10 CITES Spam Control has deleted 376,707 viruses and users of CITES Spam Control have blocked 5,004,995 spam messages.

Though CITES Spam Control has been successful thus far, there is still more the service can do.

“Unfortunately over 10 million messages have been identified as spam in the same 30 day period but get delivered because of the campus users that haven't yet signed up,” said Corn.

If you are interested in signing up for CITES Spam Control, please visit https://spam-control.cites.uiuc.edu/