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Glossary
Definitions of SpamTitan specific and general spam filtering terms.
Stands for 'address record'. The A-record determines which IP address belongs to a domain name. This record 'translates' the domain name to...
A directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. Active Directory serves as a central location for network administration and securit...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a p...
A statistical technique of email filtering. It makes use of a naive Bayes classifier to identify spam email.
Bayesian classifiers work by correlating th...
The success rate in catching spam.
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is an IP addressing system that replaces an older system based on classes. One IP address can be used to designate s...
A computer cluster consists of a set of loosely connected computers that work together so that in many respects they can be viewed as a single system. Each...
An email spamming technique whereby a spammer sends out thousands of emails with randomly generated addresses using combinations of letters in the hopes of...
A false negative in SpamTitan means a spam email came through as clean (less than the default score of 5).
A false positive in SpamTitan means a clean email was marked as spam (more than the default score of 5).