Open Directory - Computers: Internet: E-mail: Spam
See also: This category in other languages: - 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. - List of contact information of spammers - Tips and resource links to help fight spam. - Website administrator shares information about spam he encounters on his various websites and 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. The site also keeps track of notorious spammers and hosters. - Techniques to deal with unwanted e-mail - An argument against using MAPS, encouraging ISPs to individually control spam instead of relying on central services. - A tool for tracking down junk e-mailers, junk news posters and their internet service providers. - Information on deciphering spam, complaining about it, and filtering e-mail. - Anti-spam resources include papers examining the problem of bulk e-mail and links to other organizations. - Advice to visitors to Usenet News Group news.admin.net-abuse.email to ensure a good and helpful experience. - Article outlining Paul Graham's proposal, and spam FAQs. - A consumer news and information web site chronicling one Oklahoma ISP’s fight over illegal spam - Editors of Internet ScamBusters present tips and resources to reduce spam. - Dealing with unsolicited email messages. - Wisconsin online community against spam, featuring local and national legislation updates, spam news and forums. - United States, European Union, and other countries' laws and pending legislation regarding unsolicited commercial email. - Links to resources on preventing and tracking spam. - Spam-related mailing list. Includes subscription information, and FAQ. - Software to stop messenger spam and Windows pop-up spam. Tutorials on how to manually disable messenger spam are also available. - Witches against spam. Article about spam laws. - Strategies and tactics to deal with and prevent junk e-mail. - A cynical set of rules generated from a discussion in the newsgroup NANAE, news.admin.net-abuse.email. - List for developers of tools to prevent spam. - 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. - 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. - A Yahoo Club for the anti-spam community. Publicly-viewable group discussion, news and links. - Article by Laura Frieder and Jonathan Zittrain assessing the impact of stock-tout spam upon trading activity and how profitable such spamming might be. (January 21, 2007) - 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. (June 13, 2005) - Amy C. Fleitas describes untrue spam stories arriving in inboxes daily. (April 13, 2004) XML Feeds: - News and commentary on spam and anti-spam tools and technologies. [RSS] - News about spam, collected from various sources on the web. [RSS]
