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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>spamhaus</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spamblock.html" title="spamblock"/><link rel="next" href="spamvertize.html" title="spamvertize"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">spamhaus</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spamblock.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spamvertize.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="spamhaus"/><dt xmlns="" id="spamhaus"><b>spamhaus</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">spam´hows</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits or
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even encourages <a href="spam.html"><i class="glossterm">spam</i></a> mailings from its systems. The
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plural is <span class="firstterm">spamhausen</span>. There is a web
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page devoted to <a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/" target="_top"> tracking
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spamhausen</a>.</p><p>The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber
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Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The
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anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day,
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but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners of
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the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the junk-fax
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laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have declined in
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relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers using
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<a href="../R/relay-rape.html"><i class="glossterm">relay rape</i></a> and
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<a href="../T/throwaway-account.html"><i class="glossterm">throwaway account</i></a>s on reputable ISPs seem to account for most of the
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flow.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spamblock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="spamvertize.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">spamblock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> spamvertize</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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