The company policy is that inro.ca does not send spam.

Posting of spam using the e-mail address of an INRO employee is fraud. Any misuse of inro.ca addresses is considered fraud, and will be addressed accordingly.

What is UCE / spam?

Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, also known as spam, is the mass electronic distribution of unsolicited e-mail to individual e-mail accounts, aliases, or mailing lists and archives. These messages are considered to be a nuisance and their contents can be offensive, illegal, or simply misdirected advertising.

Why adopt a UCE / spam policy?

The problem of spam costs money and wastes resources. With conventional junk mail the sender must pay for delivery to recipients. Enormous amounts of unsolicited e-mail and spam are paid for by the recipients in the form of wasted bandwidth and system resources!

Fighting UCE / spam

At INRO, we use multiple methods to fight spam to protect INRO's computer network and INRO employees:

• server-side spam filtering software
• a compiled list of known spammers/abusers
• client-side spam filtering software

How do I know if my messages are being blocked?

If you received a message which contains the following, or similar

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
(reason: 550 : Client host rejected: Access denied)

then your message was blocked because your e-mail address was found in inro.ca's list of known spammers/abusers. This list is compiled based on spam received at inro.ca.

If you wish to be removed from inro.ca's list of known spammers/abusers, please complete the blocked message form.

I received spam from an inro.ca address!

If you receive spam from inro.ca, please report the violation to abuse@inro.ca.

For more information about e-mail header analysis, see CERT's Spoofed/Forged Email overview.