[77008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Security Glossary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Mon Jan 10 23:08:53 2005
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:08:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501101937490.12250-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> I recently created email security glossary out of the smaller one that was
> included in mta-signatures paper (its now > 5 times larger with almost 300
> terms and abbreviations!), it includes primarily email and cryptography
> abbreviations and terms but number of related network and dns terms are
> also there. This glossary will be shared among several of my projects and
> websites, but currently its first official location is:
> http://www.metasignatures.org/glossary.htm
>
> Feel free to check this out and if you find any terms that you do not
> believe are accurately described, let me know.
I would represent "spam" in all lower-case letters. The all-CAPS format
you use throughout the document is a trademark of Hormel Foods. Hormel
acknowledges the generic use of the term "spam" referring to email but
requests that it not be capitalized. Otherwise an excellent reference.
See http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
--
Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay@west.net
WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 WB6RDV
NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/
