The use of traffic monitoring to identify remote IP addresses sending too many emails. Access to the mail system from those IP addresses is then temporarily suspended.

Monitoring mail traffic to identify mass mailers, or senders who are sending an unusually large number of messages. There are no definitions for this letter. There are no definitions for this letter.

The use of traffic monitoring to identify remote IP addresses sending a suspiciously large volume of email. Access to the mail system from suspected spam addresses can then be slowed or temporarily suspended. (See teergrube or tarpit.)

Tarpitting refers to the practice of attempting to starve the resources of a spammer or hacker by holding open a connection until it times out. This tactic is, in general, not particularly effective, and, when used in combination with any of our MailHop services, can cause serious problems, and should not be used. ()