teergrube /teer'groob/ n.
[German for `tar pit'] A
trap set to punish spammers who use an address harvester; a
mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow. To
activate it, scatter addresses that look like users on the teergrube's
host in places where the address harvester will be trolling (one
popular way is to embed the fake address in a Usenet sig block next
to a human-readable warning not to send mail to it). The address
harvester will dutifully collect the address. When the spammer
tries to mailbomb it, his mailer will get stuck.
[German for `tar pit'] A
trap set to punish spammers who use an address harvester; a
mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow. To
activate it, scatter addresses that look like users on the teergrube's
host in places where the address harvester will be trolling (one
popular way is to embed the fake address in a Usenet sig block next
to a human-readable warning not to send mail to it). The address
harvester will dutifully collect the address. When the spammer
tries to mailbomb it, his mailer will get stuck.
Related:
- spamblock /spam'blok/ n.
[poss. by analogy to
sunblock] Text inserted in an email address to render it invalid
and thus useless to spammers.
For example, the address `jrandom@hacker.org' might... - address harvester n.
A robot that searches web pages
and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses.
Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling... - paper-net: n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - paper-net n.
Hackish way of referring to the postal
service,
analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network... - ICBM address n.
(Also `missile address') The form
used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project,
back before the day of pervasive Internet, included... - ICBM address: n. (Also `missile address') The form used to
register a site with the USENET mapping project includes a blank
for longitude and latitude,
preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually... - BUTT.COM IS NOT MY E-MAIL ADDRESS
BUTT.COM IS NOT MY
E-MAIL ADDRESS BUTT.COM IS NOT MY E-MAIL ADDRESS BUTT... - For address,
send a SASE to....... - mailing list n.
(often shortened in context to `list')
1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though...
From the same category:
- corge /korj/ n.
[originally, the name of a cat] Yet
another metasyntactic variable,
invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the... - postmaster n.
The email contact and maintenance person at a
site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The... - desk check n.,v.
To grovel over hardcopy of source
code,
mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching... - kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - wango /wang'goh/ n.
Random bit-level grovelling
going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
Often used in combination with mumble. For example...
