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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

You're reading from  SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811121
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Introduction
1. Introducing Spam 2. Spam and Anti-Spam Techniques 3. Open Relays 4. Protecting Email Addresses 5. Detecting Spam 6. Installing SpamAssassin 7. Configuration Files 8. Using SpamAssassin 9. Bayesian Filtering 10. Look and Feel 11. Network Tests 12. Rules 13. Improving Filtering 14. Performance 15. Housekeeping and Reporting 16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway 17. Email Clients 18. Choosing Other Spam Tools Glossary

Usenet


Usenet is also called network news, NNTP, or just news. It can be likened to a distributed bulletin board, where messages posted on one board (or server) are forwarded to other boards (or servers) in a network. There are many specialized newsgroups and news servers. An ISP will often provide a news server for its customers, and large corporations occasionally provide them for use by staff. Commercial Usenet providers are in operation, and an archive of Usenet posts is available at http://groups.google.com/.

The first spammers collected their email addresses from Usenet. Even today, it is the second greatest source of email addresses.

Most news servers do not require a user to provide an email address to read posts on newsgroups. However, most require a user to provide an email address when posting messages. If a user only reads newsgroups, their email address will not be collected by spammers from Usenet. Some mailing lists are also echoed to Usenet and subscribers to it are at risk...

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