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It also means the e-mail is significantly more likely to make it past a spam filter, even an aggressive one. There was very little in that e-mail any reasonable spam filter could possibly have flagged, unless they're going to start doing API calls to grammarly. But if they check spelling and grammar, filters will start flagging a lot more than spam.

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.ac.uk emails get spam filtered pretty harshly.

really? why?

Not sure but some guesses:

Traditionally students got a lot of leeway with running their own stuff maybe there have been a few doing not-good-things?

Lots of academics who don't take security seriously have had more admin access to live servers than they should and then stuff like the article happens?

My Alma Mater, The Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim, Norway had issues with student E-mails being spamhammered all over the world.

Why? All student accounts were hosted under stud.ntnu.no; presumably authors of spam filters made other associations when they saw the string 'stud' than it being short for 'student'.

Cough. Their practice of automagically generating user names based on parts of your first and last name in my time led to two users having (for a short time!) the addresses hung@stud.ntnu.no and pervo@stud.ntnu.no.

Their practice of automagically generating user names based on parts of your first and last name in my time led to two users having (for a short time!) the addresses hung@stud.ntnu.no and pervo@stud.ntnu.no.

Brenda Utthead feels their pain.

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