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IN THIS TOPIC:  NEWS (97) , EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (41) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (17) , MAGAZINE CONTENT (5) , WEBCASTS (11) , WHITE PAPERS , DEFINITIONS (17)

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spam cocktail
29 Aug 2005
WORD - A spam cocktail (or anti-spam cocktail) is the use of several different technologies in combination to successfully identify and minimize spam. The use of multiple mechanisms increases the accuracy of spam identification and ...
Register of Known Spam Operations
26 Oct 2004
WORD - The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) is a list of over 500 professional spammers that is maintained by the Spamhaus Project, an organization dedicated to identifying and exposing spam operators. Any spammer known to ...
Sender Policy Framework
08 Mar 2004
WORD - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an anti-spam approach in which the Internet domain of an e-mail sender can be authenticated for that sender, thereby discouraging spam mailers, who routinely disguise the origin of their ...
CAPTCHA
16 Feb 2004
WORD - A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a challenge-response system test designed to differentiate humans from automated programs. A CAPTCHA differentiates between human and ...
challenge-response system
16 Feb 2004
WORD - A challenge-response system is a program that replies to an e-mail message from an unknown sender by subjecting the sender to a test (called a CAPTCHA) designed to differentiate humans from automated senders. The system ...
DomainKeys
18 Jan 2004
WORD - DomainKeys is an anti-spam software application in development at Yahoo that uses a form of public key cryptography to authenticate the sender's domain. Today, the sender of a spam message can spoof the originating address ...
spam filter
20 Nov 2003
WORD - A spam filter is a program that is used to detect unsolicited and unwanted email and prevent those messages from getting to a user's inbox. Like other types of filtering programs, a spam filter looks for certain criteria on ...
Joe job
20 Nov 2003
WORD - A Joe job is an e-mail spoofing exploit in which someone sends out huge volumes of spam that appear to be from someone other than the actual source. A Joe job is sometimes conducted as an act of revenge on someone who ...
munging
22 Apr 2003
WORD - Munging (pronounced (MUHN-jing or MUHN-ging) is the deliberate alteration of an e-mail address online with the intent of making the address unusable for Web-based programs that build e-mail lists for spamming purposes. People ...
content filtering
13 Nov 2002
WORD - On the Internet, content filtering (also known as information filtering) is the use of a program to screen and exclude from access or availability Web pages or e-mail that is deemed objectionable. Content filtering is used ...


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