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Elay Rape N. The Hijacking Of A Third Party's Unsecured Mail Server To Deliver Spam.
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relay rape n.
The hijacking of a third party's
unsecured mail server to deliver spam.
Related:
leaf site n.,obs. Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any third-party traffic.
It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the network tended to develop bottlenecks....
leaf site: n. A machine that merely originates and reads USENET news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic.
Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks....
Mail server hit by UniSpammer.
pamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or even encourages spam mailings from its systems.
The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page devoted to tracking spamhausen....
The co-locator cannot verify the frame-relay gateway to the ISDN server.
What me worry? I read relay mail.
Computer: "Leela, you've got mail. It's not spam!
backbone site: n. A key USENET and email site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic
especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the USENET maps....
bounce message: [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see {bounce}
ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a {down} relay site....