Thousands of UVM people are keeping spam out of their email inboxes by using
UVM's spam filtering service, see
  https://webmail.uvm.edu
and look at the options in the left panel.
This filtering service does not discard the spam but stores it in
a spam folder which is backed up by our data protection system,
along with all other email folders, to guard against loss.

Recently Computing and Information Technology (CIT) has noticed that these
spam folders have grown quite large and are impacting the performance of
the backup system.

Since messages in the spam folders are generally of low value, and are
automatically deleted after 120 days, CIT will discontinue spam folder
backups beginning June 7, 2006.

If you have valuable messages saved in your spam folder, you might want to
consider moving them to another folder. To begin managing spam or to learn more
please see UVM's self-service email management pages
  http://www.uvm.edu/cit/email

John Ryder, Systems Administrator, Computing and Information Technology,
            University of Vermont, [log in to unmask] 802-656-1183