At the center of the antispam effort is a small Redwood City, Calif. not-for-profit organization called Mail Abuse Prevention System or MAPS (spam spelled backwards).

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At the center of the antispam effort is a small nonprofit organization in Redwood City, California, called Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS: spam spelled backward).

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It was also used to launch attacks against antispam Web sites.

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What this amounts to is a highly layered security strategy consisting of vital elements that include intrusion prevention, botnet and application control, Web filtering, antispam, and antivirus.

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