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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>teergrube</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tee.html" title="tee"/><link rel="next" href="teledildonics.html" title="teledildonics"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">teergrube</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tee.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="teledildonics.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="teergrube"/><dt xmlns="" id="teergrube"><b>teergrube</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/teer<65>groob<6F>@/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [German for <span class="firstterm">tar pit</span>] A trap
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set to punish spammers who use an <a href="../A/address-harvester.html"><i class="glossterm">address harvester</i></a>;
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a mail server deliberately set up to be really, really slow. To activate
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it, scatter addresses that look like users on the teergrube's host in
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places where the address harvester will be trolling (one popular way is to
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embed the fake address in a Usenet sig block next to a human-readable
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warning not to send mail to it). The address harvester will dutifully
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collect the address. When the spammer tries to mailbomb it, his mailer
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will get stuck.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tee.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="teledildonics.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tee<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>teledildonics</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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