Spam Tools

Among the key focus areas for email users are virus-free stability, lower maintenance and upgrade costs, email search capabilities for customized spam surveillance, archive services and anti-spam tools.
Massive floods of forged articles, typically intended to disrupt a newsgroup, in which gibberish articles containing reasonable-looking headers are spammed to the group, make the legitimate articles too difficult to find.
Spamhaus: a rogue site which exists for the purpose of sending out spam.
Also: spamhaus.
org, a web site dedicated to tracking spammers.
Many systems disable address verification completely to prevent spammers from harvesting email addresses.
At any company that isn't an isp or web hosting company, the system administrator (one a system administrator) is usually in charge of the company mail server, and responsible for preventing spam from reaching the company's employees.
If a spammer can set up his own authoritative name servers for his website domains, he can use these to rapidly change the apparent address of his websites among large botnets of compromised home computers.
Black hat, when related to spam, describes an internet provider that does not restrict the spamming activities of its customers.

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