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About Teuton

The servers, services, and network that are collectively known as "Teuton" have been around in their current state since 1995 and are provided by Erik Mugele.

Prior to 1995 "teuton" was a UUCP node that was set up in the 1980s. Back then "teuton" was an AT&T 3B1 running UNIX System V, 3.51 (a variant of UNIX System V R2).

People seem generally confused about what the word "teuton" means. Here is a dictionary definition and a Wikipedia entry that explain it.

User Services

Email Information

Email services provided by teuton.org use a variety of UCE/spam filtering tools. While unlikely, it is possible that some legitimate email may be rejected. Every effort has been taken to use only the most conservative filtering rules. A locally generated list of blacklisted sending hosts, domains, and addresses is maintained.

Greylisting is being used as a first line of defense against spam.

The following DNSBLs are used to check sending servers (in the following order) and messages coming from these servers are rejected.

No content filtering is done on email messages with the following two exceptions:

  • Email containing URLs found in any SURBL or URIBL are rejected using a custom script.
  • SpamAssassin is used to assign a score to every email message. Most email clients can be set to filter based on the scores placed in the headers of the email message. Messages with an exceptionally high score of 8+ are rejected.
Most email going through the system is scanned for viruses and other malware. Messages found to contain any form of malware or Microsoft Windows executable are rejected.

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If you find the services provided by Teuton useful, please consider donating to help offset the cost of providing service.

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Last modified: Tuesday, 19-Aug-2008 09:41:00 MDT