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Combatting Email Borne Pests using Open Source Tools

Sing, 2004

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6365173272908361578
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Sing J
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AUUGN

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Recently, the number of email borne pests has increased significantly, causing a flood of useless email to arrive in user mailboxes. This paper details the tools and techniques used by a small hosting provider, in order to combat these pests, namely virii and spam. The …
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