OT: More Spam

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 10:12am, eprice at ptc.com wrote:
>> They have an MX record, which is all the spam robots need.
> 
> Pardon my butting in, but what is an MX record?

  MX = Mail Exchanger.  An MX record is a record in the DNS that designates
the mail exchanger for a given domain name.  Other mail exchangers then use
the designated mail exchanger to send mail to the domain.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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