THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY September 9, 2003 teergrube
________________ SPONSORED BY: Microsoft The Quick Guide to Windows Server 2003. Get the latest information on installation, new features and training. Click here! http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,17952,00.htm?microsoft ________________ TODAY'S WORD: teergrube See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci917507,00.html A teergrube (German for tar pit) is a computer server set up to be intentionally slow, as a trap for spammers using address harvesting programs. The owner of the teergrube sets out fake e-mail addresses in places where harvesting programs search, along with a human-readable warning not to send messages to those addresses. The address harvester, unable to read the warning, collects the addresses and the spammer duly sends spam. The spammer's messages are accepted by the teergrube, albeit very, very slowly, thus tying up resources. A teergrube is configured to maintain a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) session for exceptionally long periods -- sometimes more than 24 hours -- so that the session is not timed-out. The extended time period that a spammer is stuck in a teergrube may also afford more opportunity to detect the source of messages. ______________________ RELATED TERMS: server http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212964,00.html Simple Mail Transfer Protocol http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214219,00.html ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: NEW SEPTEMBER 11 VIRUS SPOTTED; MORE ON THE WAY? Virus researchers have discovered a new worm related to the September 11 anniversary this week. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci924419,00.html EMC SAYS GOODBYE TO WIDESKY EMC has stopped marketing its WideSky middleware as a "universal translator" between storage arrays and management applications in favor of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), an open storage management standard expected to be ratified by year's end. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci922611,00.html LOTUS READIES 'REALLY COOL' NEW NOTES The new Notes 6.5 has a lot of snazzy end-user enhancements, most notably integration with Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime). http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci924391,00.html >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com/ ______________________ Secret Word-of-the-Day | Who is IT? HINT: At age 10, he served as an assistant to his grandfather by entering data into his grandfather's "programmable calculator" and (just for fun) taught himself some simple BASIC programs by reading the instruction booklets that came with it. By the time he registered as a computer science student at the University of Helsinki, he was already an accomplished programmer. Who is it? >> See if you're right! http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid39_gci878891,00.html _____________________ Quiz #28 | Ethernet How much do you know about Ethernet? Take this week's quiz and find out! >> Click to take the quiz http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci834253,00.html ______________________ September IT Horoscopes | Horoscopes for geeks See what the future holds for the month of September. ;-) http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci919205,00.html ______________________________ RECENT ADDITIONS AND UPDATES [1] Monte Carlo method http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci922393,00.html [2] Direct Outward Dialing http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci922158,00.html [3] Cygwin http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid39_gci922130,00.html [4] DIME http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci921975,00.html [5] jumper http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212430,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: LOWELL THING, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MARGARET ROUSE, Associate Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IVY WIGMORE, Assistant Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER :::::::::::::::::::::: This newsletter is published by TechTarget, the most targeted IT media. http://www.techtarget.com Copyright 2003 TechTarget. All rights reserved. ____________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from "Word of the Day": Reply to this e-mail with REMOVE in the Subject line - OR - Go to unsubscribe: http://WhatIs.com/u Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.
