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Articles

Address Munging Considered Harmful, Al Iverson's Spamresource.com, Alleee and Franc's Insolitology, E-mail Marketing Articles, How Bulk E-mail Can Destroy Your Small Business, How the UK Can Stop Spam Without Damaging Free Spe, How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-mail and News, Information Filtering Resources, NYTimes.com - 3 Web Sites Closed in Spam Inquiry, On Spam: Wasting time on the Internet

Blacklists

Perspectives and Opinions, AntiSpam DNSBL, Better Ethics Online, bl.csma.biz - Spam Blacklist, Blackholes.us, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, Blacklists Compared, Blitzed IRC Network (OPM.BLITZED.ORG), Chinese and Korean Net Blocks, Clueless Mailers, Composite Blocking List (CBL)

Comment Spam

BBC News - How spammers are targeting blogs, Big Fractal Tangle: Designing For Lowlifes, Blog Spam Database, Blogspam.org - Anti-Comment Spam Tactics, Comment Spam: Google's Toxic Waste Dump, Internetnews.com - Six Apart Trains Guns on ', Jeremy Zawodny's Blog - Guerilla Tactics Agai, Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Using mod_rewrite agai, Kalsey Consulting Group - Comment Spam Manifesto, Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam

Filtering

0Spam.com, Activator Mail, Anti Spam Software, AppRiver, ASSP, Atqui Spam Filter, BayEmail, Blockallspam, Bob's Spam Filter, Brightmail Inc.

Humor

Are you a spammer?, Bernard Shifman is a Moron Spammer, Conversations with a Nigerian Bank Scammer, Fun with Scammers, In Which We Attempt To Advance the State of the Ar, Lads of Lagos, Nigerian Scam, One-Hundred and One Things to do with a Spammer, P. T. Barnstormer's Internet Sideshow, Random Spam Generator

News and Media

1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, Email Spam News - Topix.net, spamNEWS, trimMail's Email Battles, Yahoo! News Full Coverage-Spam and Junk Email

Organizations

Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG), Ban The Spam, CAUBE.AU, CAUCE, CAUCE India, EuroCAUCE Homepage, Freedom's Army, Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS), National Spam Mail Abuse Association

Preventing

Address Munging FAQ, Anti Spam Email Service, Avoid Spam, BestPrac.Org, BlackSpider Technologies, Bumpymail.com, DMA: EMail Preference Service, E-mail Preference Service Limited, Email address encoder, Email Harvesting: How To Protect Yourself

Referrer Spam

Capn Design Archives: Referrer Spam is Out of Cont, Idly.org: Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs, ihelpyouservices.com - Why you shouldn't publ, kasia in a nutshell: Spamming through referrer log, kuro5hin.org - Referrer log spam, MetaFilter - Referer Log Spam, redemption in a blog - Smarter referrer spam?, Referrer Log Spamming, Sam Ruby: Referrer Spam, Talk.org: John Kerry referrer spamming my blogs

Tracking

Adcomplain, alt.spam FAQ or "Figuring Out Fake E-Mail &am, Anti-spam: AOL edition, EmailAbuse.org, eMailTrackerPro, Exterminating Spammers Step-By-Step, Fighting Spam Article by OpioN, Figuring out fake E-Mail & Posts, How to Interpret Email Headers, iNetCheck

Wikispam

c2.com - Wikispam, Chongqed.org - Fighting wiki spam, CommunityWiki: WikiSpam, Meatball Wiki: WikiSpam, Wikipedia - Wikispam

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2005/03/blogspot_is_hur.html

Describes how Blogspot has become a key feature of automated spamming tools.

Anti Spam Blog

http://antispam.foundnews.com

Spam blocking and prevention news and reviews.

Anti-Spamming Act

http://members.tripod.com/antispamming/

List of contact information of spammers

Anti-UBE/UCE Page

http://www.stassen.com/chris/anti-spam/

Tips and resource links to help fight spam.

ChooseYourMail

http://www.spamrecycle.com/

Forwards spam to federal authorities and provides tips for preventing spam.

Cost Those Spammers Money

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/

Toll-free phone numbers of spammers.

Curt West

http://beers66.tripod.com/

Description of spam, contact information for some ISPs, and free e-mail.

Dave's Anti-Spam Page

http://www.flanigan.net/spam/

Spam Statistics, links to tools and other anti-spam sites

Deadbeats' Hall of Lame

http://www.studio42.com/kill-the-spam/

Lists spammers who sent e-mail (at least twice) to the webmaster of this site.

Death to Spam

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/nospam.html

Techniques to deal with unwanted e-mail

Deekoo.net Hates Spam

http://www.deekoo.net/peeves/spam/

Some information, statistics, and case files in dealing with a select group of spammers.

Direct Marketing Association E-Mail Preference Ser

http://www.dmaconsumers.org/emps.html

Allows consumers to indicate that they wish to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, that they receive.

Dougal's War Against Spam

http://spam.gunters.org/

Links, tools, and philosophy about fighting spam.

E-Mail Spamming Countermeasures

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/i-005c.shtml

General information on preventing and filtering spam.

Elsop's Anti-Spam Page

http://www.elsop.com/wrc/nospam.htm

Links to anti-spam sites and legislation.

Fight Spam on the Internet

http://spam.abuse.net/

Includes information regarding laws, filtering, spam prevention, and responsible marketing, as well as information and advice about how to complain about spam. Laws, anti-spam information, and links to other resources.

Financial Fiction: 9 most popular e-mail hoaxes

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20030325a1.asp

Common untrue spam stories arriving in inboxes daily.

Historical Spam Museum and Archive

http://www.visi.com/~drow/spam/index.html

Collects and preserves spam on the remote chance that it may be of value to future net.archaeologists.

How To Fight Spam

http://www.howtofightspam.com/

A collection of links and tools to assist in the fight against spam.

Junk E-mail and Spam

http://www.ecofuture.org/jmemail.html

Information on deciphering spam, complaining about it, and filtering e-mail.

Junkbusters Junk Email Headlines

http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/junkemail.html

Information about preventing and tracking spam and overview of spam laws.

Lambic House Anti Spam pages

http://www.lambic.co.uk/spam/

Some advice on dealing with unwanted spam, some spam haiku, and the spammy quotes archive

Limiting Unsolicited Bulk Email

http://www.imc.org/imc-spam/

Anti-spam resources include papers examining the problem of bulk e-mail and links to other organizations.

NANAE FAQ: Advice For Newsgroup Posting

http://bruce.pennypacker.org/nanaefaq.html

Advice to visitors to Usenet News Group news.admin.net-abuse.email to ensure a good and helpful experience.

Paul Graham - A Plan For Spam

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Article outline Paul Graham's proposal, and an extensive spam FAQ.

ScamBuster's Stop Spam

http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/

Editors of Internet ScamBusters present tips and resources to reduce spam.

Spam (Unsolicited Bulk Email), Antispam, and Relat

http://cesario.rutgers.edu/easmith/computers/antispam.html

Data on and analysis of spamfighting-related matters.

Spam and the world will Spam with you

http://www.juicycerebellum.com/spam.htm

Argues that spam is not a problem and should be promoted.

Spam at Weblogs Inc.

http://spam.weblogsinc.com/rss.xml

News and commentary on spam and anti-spam tools and technologies.

Spam Conference

http://spamconference.org/

Held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Site includes news, abstracts and webcasts of talks, and schedule.

Spam Fighting Tips, Tricks and Secrets

http://email.about.com/cs/spamfightingtips/

Dealing with unsolicited email messages.

Spam Huntress

http://spamhuntress.com/

Privite citizen turned spammer hunter/killer writes about all topics related to the spamming industry.

Spam Laws - US and European

http://www.spamlaws.com/

United States, European Union, and other countries' laws and pending legislation regarding unsolicited commercial email.

Spam statistics

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/5718/

Spam statistics from one person's mailbox.

Spam, Scams and Relevant Resources

http://www.macintouch.com/spam.shtml

Links to resources on preventing and tracking spam.

Spam-l

http://tile.net/lists/showlists.php?list_id=19798

Spam-related mailing list.

SpamArchive.org

http://www.spamarchive.org/

Database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools. Accepts user contributions.

Spamfaq.net

http://www.spamfaq.net

FAQs from news.admin.net-abuse.email and related newsgroups including information on how to filter and report spam, as well as information on the anti-spam community.

Spamfo

http://www.spamfo.co.uk/

Organized collection of news, reviews and links about unsolicited bulk email (spam).

spamNEWS - ISP Complaint Addresses

http://www.petemoss.com/spam/complaints.html

Contact information for many major ISP's, as well as an indication of how spam-friendly they are.

Stop Messenger Spam

http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/

Software to stop messenger spam and Windows pop-up spam. Tutorials on how to manually disable messenger spam are also available.

Stop Spam

http://www.stop-spam.org/

A collection of resources to fight spam.

Stop Spam Now

http://members.tripod.com/~johnmlee/stopspamnow.html

A collection of links to other anti-spam websites.

Stop Spam Now

http://www.how-do-i-stop-spam.com/

Introduction of an anti-spam e-book about how to recognize and filter spam.

SUEaSpammer.com

http://www.sueaspammer.com/

A consumer news and information web site chronicling one Oklahoma ISP?s fight over illegal spam

Talk About Spam

http://www.talkaboutspam.com/

Chat about all types of spam, advertising, viruses, hoaxes and how to stop illegal internet behaviors of this sort.

That Pesky and Obnoxious Spam

http://www.witchvox.com/fritz/spam.html

Witches against spam. Article about spam laws.

The Campaign to Stop Junk Email

http://www.jcrdesign.com/junkemail.html

Strategies and tactics to deal with and prevent junk e-mail.

The Email Abuse FAQ

http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/emailfaq.html

Information on spam, including how and to whom to respond.

The Rules of Spam

http://bruce.pennypacker.org/spamrules.html

A cynical set of rules generated from a discussion in the newsgroup NANAE, news.admin.net-abuse.email.

The Spam Letters

http://thespamletters.com/

Replies to spam, organized by category.

The Spam Tools Mailing List

http://www.abuse.net/spamtools.html

List for developers of tools to prevent spam.

The Story of "Nadine" -- A Tale of Maili

http://www.honet.com/Nadine/

Account of what happened after an Internet user accidentally gave a wrong email address when she visited a web page and signed up for a sweepstakes.

Topix.net: Spam

http://rss.topix.net/rss/news/spam.xml

News about spam, collected from various sources on the web.

Unsolicited E-Mail (SPAM) Issues

http://everythingemail.net/email_unsolicited.html

Links to anti-spam tools and resources.

What is Spam?

http://www.wdvl.com/Internet/Protocols/Email/Spam.html

Short FAQ explaining email and usenet spam. Offers suggestions on how to reduce the amount of spam received.

Wikipedia - Spamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

Provides a general overview of the spamming phenomenon. Links to articles which discuss the techniques of spammers on particular media: Internet e-mail, instant messaging, Usenet newsgroups, Web search engines, weblogs, and mobile phone messaging. Another article describes ways of stopping e-mail abuse.

Yahoo Anti-spam Club

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anti-spam/

A Yahoo Club for the anti-spam community. Publicly-viewable group discussion, news and links.