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Linux Email - Quiz

Each question is worth one point. Select the best answer or answers for each question.
1. Which of the following are reasons to stop SPAM?
Please select all the correct answers.
  A. SPAM is unethical.
  B. SPAM wastes non-trivial amounts of resources.
  C. Sending SPAM is a federal offense.
  D. SPAM can force recipients to pay for goods unnecessarily.

2. Why would you want to use fetchmail?
Please select the best answer.
  A. To filter email
  B. To request an email from a recipient's computer
  C. To forge your email's identity
  D. To retrieve your email from an upstream MDA

3. What is the purpose of MAPS RBL?
Please select the best answer.
  A. To locate an email's current position anywhere on the Internet
  B. To locate a user's MUA anywhere on the Internet
  C. To check to see, in real time, if a sender is blacklisted
  D. To transfer email from one domain to another

4. Which of the following is the least effective method to stop SPAM? Please select the best answer.
  A. Legal action
  B. Filtering your email based on content
  C. Using blacklists
  D. Asking your system administrator to turn off email