server spam filter
server spam filter thoughts for 12.31.1969
- A pink contract will allow the spammer to send bulk email through open relays on their servers.
- Spam email can be used to flood a mail server, performs a denial of service (dos) attack, makes the destination server freeze or suffer for low performance.
- This is a set of rules for sending email between mail servers.
- Local name servers get their info from the authoritative name servers for each domain, and usually retain this information for a time in their cache (memory) before "refreshing" it with another authoritative lookup.
- The SPF record specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email from that domain.
- A receiving server can then check the domain's SPF record to see if the incoming email came from a valid server or not.
- Access logs are files that are created by a web server whenever a page from a site is requested.
- Some servers also add another very useful piece of information - the referring page: that is, which page the user "came from".
- A Teergrube (or tarpit) is an intentionally slow server that aims to trap spammers using harvesting programs.
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