Knowledge: spam
See Also:
- computers → internet → e-mail → marketing
- computers → software → internet → site management
- home → consumer information → advocacy and protection → junk mail and telemarketing
- society → issues → business → advertising
Links
- 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.
- The Spam Tools Mailing List
http://www.abuse.net/spamtools.html - List for developers of tools to prevent spam.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- How To Fight Spam
http://www.howtofightspam.com/ - A collection of links and tools to assist in the fight against spam.
- Junkbusters Junk Email Headlines
http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/junkemail.html - Information about preventing and tracking spam and overview of spam laws.
- Death to Spam
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/nospam.html - Techniques to deal with unwanted e-mail
- The Story of "Nadine" -- A Tale of Mailing Lists
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.
- Spam (Unsolicited Bulk Email), Antispam, and Related Matters
http://cesario.rutgers.edu/easmith/computers/antispam.html - Data on and analysis of spamfighting-related matters.
- 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.
- Anti-Spamming Act
http://members.tripod.com/antispamming/ - List of contact information of spammers
- Dave's Anti-Spam Page
http://www.flanigan.net/spam/ - Includes spam statistics, links to tools, and other anti-spam sites.
- Junk E-mail and Spam
http://www.ecofuture.org/jmemail.html - Information on deciphering spam, complaining about it, and filtering e-mail.
- ScamBuster's Stop Spam
http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/ - Editors of Internet ScamBusters present tips and resources to reduce spam.
- Dougal's War Against Spam
http://spam.gunters.org/ - Links, tools, and philosophy about fighting spam.
- Direct Marketing Association E-Mail Preference Service
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.
- Elsop's Anti-Spam Page
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/nospam.htm - Links to anti-spam sites and legislation.
- 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.
- Spam, Scams and Relevant Resources
http://www.macintouch.com/spam.shtml - Links to resources on preventing and tracking spam.
- Anti-UBE/UCE Page
http://www.stassen.com/chris/anti-spam/ - Tips and resource links to help fight spam.
- 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.
- 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 at Weblogs Inc.
http://spam.weblogsinc.com/rss.xml - News and commentary on spam and anti-spam tools and technologies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 outlining Paul Graham's proposal, and an extensive spam FAQ.
- Bankrate: 9 Most Popular Email Hoaxes
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20030325a1.asp - Amy C. Fleitas describes untrue spam stories arriving in inboxes daily.
- 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.
- Spam Laws - US and European
http://www.spamlaws.com/ - United States, European Union, and other countries' laws and pending legislation regarding unsolicited commercial email.
- SUEaSpammer.com
http://www.sueaspammer.com/ - A consumer news and information web site chronicling one Oklahoma ISP’s fight over illegal spam
- Spam Huntress
http://spamhuntress.com/ - Privite citizen turned spammer hunter/killer writes about all topics related to the spamming industry. Also has a wiki for additional information not kept in the weblog.
- Spamfo
http://www.spamfo.co.uk/ - Organized collection of news, reviews and links about unsolicited bulk email (spam).
- Report a Spam Result
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html - Form that can be to report spam in the search results to Google.
- Spam Is Bad
http://www.spamisbad.com/ - Wisconsin online community against spam, featuring local and national legislation updates, spam news and forums.
- Damn Spam!
http://spam.tinyweb.net/ - Website administrator shares information about spam he encounters on his various websites (meaning, it's not email spam). This site also discusses ways to track down spammers and how to complain to their hosting services and ISPs in the hope that they'll cancel their accounts. Lastly, the site also keeps track of notorious spammers and notorious hosters.
- My Encounter With Search Spam On Blogger
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050613-153053 - Blogger makes it easy to create spam that clogs search results but does not make it easy to report the spam or even to be sure that Blogger cares that accounts are used that way.
- Fixing Email
http://www.fixingemail.org/ - Richi Jennings blogs about spam.
- Get that spammer!
http://www.toppoint.de/~zoc/gspam.html - A tool for tracking down junk e-mailers, junk news posters and their internet service providers.
- Spam Fighting Tips, Tricks and Secrets
http://email.about.com/od/spamfightingtips/ - Dealing with unsolicited email messages.
- Dotcomeon.com
http://www.dotcomeon.com/ - An argument against using MAPS, encouraging ISPs to individually control spam instead of relying on central services.
- SSRN-Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920553 - Article by Laura Frieder and Jonathan Zittrain assessing the impact of stock-tout spam upon trading activity and how profitable such spamming might be.
- Topix: Spam
http://www.topix.com/rss/news/spam.xml - News about spam, collected from various sources on the web.
- Spam-l
http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/ - Spam-related mailing list. Includes subscription information, and FAQ.
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