Spam Fighting Resources
We have collected a list of links to sites devoted to spam-fighting and related
activities here. This is where to start if you're not sure what all this stuff means!
Please note that all of these sites are on other systems and VirtuServ has no control over
them. We don't claim any responsibility for what is on these sites.
If you see a site that's not listed on here that you feel should be listed, please drop
our webmaster a line, and we'll see about adding
them in!
Choose a category:
Websites:
- Spam Cop
- A tool that allows you to paste in spams that you receive, and then traces the source of
spams and assists you in complaining to the spammers' ISPs.
- How to Track Spammers
and Complain to Their ISP
- Also known as the SPAM-L FAQ, this document goes into detail how to track the source of
spams and file complaints with ISPs.
- Spamex
- SpamEx provides anonymous e-mail addresses to its users, and the ability to create new
ones on an as-needed basis, so that different addresses can be given out to different
companies and people.
- The SpamCon Foundation Law Center
- Contains information on exiting spam related laws, and how to sue spammers under them.
Part of The SpamCon Foundation
- Background on the TCPA
- Boycott Internet Spam
- The definitive site, with lots of great info and links.
- ISP Acceptable Use Policies
- Sample Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) for ISP's to use.
- CIAC
Bulletin: I-005c: E-Mail Spamming countermeasures
- The US government office that alerts the world to virus threats gets serious about Spam.
- "How
to steer clear of Spammers radar"
- Article in USA Today
- Stop Spam FAQ
- Abused by e-mail advertising? Here are legitimate and legal ways of doing something
about it!
- Filter Spam Out!
- A practical guide to procmail for filtering spams.
- Spamlaws.com
- A collection of Federal and State statutes that pertain to UCE. (Formerly on jmls.edu)
- Unsolicited E-mail -
Cases
- Court Cases about Junk Email
- The Email Abuse
FAQ
- The Campaign to
Stop Junk Email
- The Netizen's Guide to Spam,
Abuse, and Internet
- Netizens Against Gratuitous
Spamming
- Stop Unsolicited Mass
E-Mail Advertisements!
- Another primer for what spamming is, why it is bad, and how to deal with it.
- emailabuse.org
- A site dedicated to stopping all forms of abusive practices via e-mail, including
harassment, Denial of Service attacks and, you guessed it, spamming.
- The Forum for Responsible and Ethical
E-mail
- Mail Essentials
- Provides and anti-spam add-on for Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, and other mailservers.
- GazNET
Anti-Spam
- A list of over 1,000 spammers that can be used as a blocking list in Microsoft Outlook.
- Sneakemail
- A free e-mail service that allows you to generate many different addresses for using
when contacting companies and the like online. If you use a different address for each
contact, you can determine if a particular company starts sending you spam.
- Spam Motel
- Another free e-mail service that allows you to generate multiple addresses and give a
seperate address to each person you contact to see who sells it.
- Spam Combat
- Features web-based versions of tools which can be used to perform name lookups,
traceroutes, etc.
- The Spamhaus Project
- Keeps track of sites which promote spam and their ISPs. It's apparently making some
progress, judging by the legal threats they have been getting from spammers. :-)
- Hormel and Spam
- Hormel's official position on the use of the word "Spam" to describe UCE. The
word is trademarked by them, and we appreciate them being cool about usage of the word.
- Junkbusters
- A site which fights junk, both paper and electronic.
- Filter-Me
- A forwarding service which allows users to set their own filters for e-mail, so each
user can create multiple addresses and have different filtering rules for each one.
Surveys:
A collection of surveys that relate to the spam problem, to show what public opinion on
it is.
- The Junk Email Survey
- A survey conducted by survey.com in 1997.
- Esearch.com's Survey
- The results of a survey conducted by Esearch.com in October, 1997.
- VTW Spam Survey
- The results of a Survey that was taken in April, 1997, for a report that was later made
to the Federal Trade Commission.
- Should ISPs be stopping
spammers?
- The results of a Gartner Group survey on who should be held accountable for stopping
spam.
- Netcreations
Sponsors Internet Marketing Surveys
- A press release from Netcreations
about the results of two surveys which they conducted.
Opt-In E-mail Companies:
These are companies which send commercial e-mail the responsible way, by sending it to
a ready and willing audience, who has asked to receive that sort of e-mail.
- BaitHook.com
- An opt-in e-mail list service with over 250,000 subscribers.
- Choose Your Mail
- Also home to the Spam Recycling
Center!
- Infobeat
- Another large opt-in mailing company, they have in excess of 3 million subscribers to
their newsletters.
- MyPoints
- You get "points" for reading their e-mails, and can redeem your points to buy
all sorts of cool stuff!
- Postmasterdirect
- A service of Netcreations,
this is one of the older opt-in e-mail companies. (NOT to be confused with
"Postmasternetworks", spammers who are currently RBLed :-)
Newsgroups:
Newsgroups on Usenet that exist for discussing spam. Your mileage may vary when using
these.
- news.admin.net-abuse.policy
- Discussion of how to combat Spam
- news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
- Post spams here.
- news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
- Discussion of Usenet spams.
- news.admin.net-abuse.email
- Discussion of E-mail Spams.
- news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins
- Announcements of Spams cancelled and Spammers bounced
- news.admin.net-abuse.misc
- Anything else about Spam
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