My Spam Links

anti-spam sites
• Sam Spade (spade_in.html) - excellent multi-featured network tool, including spam header analyzer (one of the few for windows). And his online tools at samspade.org.
• (http://www.sputum.com/sputools.html) very complete reference with tools at (http://www.sputum.com/spit/)
• Network Abuse Clearinghouse (www.abuse.net) including spam tool list, one of which is samspade.org and a The spam tools mailing list (http://abuse.net/spamtools.html)
• RBL - Realtime Blackhole List (maps.vix.com)
• combat.uxn.com tools
• www.spamfree.org 2 email lists to which i belong
• anti-spam directory of information and resources (http://www.ao.net/waytosuccess/nospam.html)
• Earthlink's spam prevention page (http://www.earthlink.net/internet/security/spam/prevent.html). I received 750 spam messages at kumpf@earthlink.net in 10 months, so sent mail to (mailto:abuse@corp.earthlink.net) (or 1.888.eln.spam (356.7726) - from their contact page (http://help.earthlink.net/contact/)) and they pointed me to this page. Other useful links on this site:
  • list of spam orgs (http://www.earthlink.net/internet/security/spam/orgs.html)
• cnet's can anyone stop spam? (http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Stop/) from earthlink. Good intro discussion. Especially
  • What NOT to do (http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Stop/ss01g.html) - eg stuff i thot i'd do and they explain why it wont work
• A petition i signed for anti-spam legislation (http://www.chooseyourmail.com/e-petition.cfm?spam=true&spamoffers=true)
• spam paper by Lorrie Faith Cranor of AT&T (spam_paper.html) very informative
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email web site (www.cauce.org) - I joined. And here's the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email newsgroup (news:comp.org.cauce) i submtted around Tue Jun 22, 1999 03:47:37 a proposal for technical only solution.
• Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming (www.nags.org) never went there cause it was down, but supposed to be mostly technical solutions. Interesting!
• www.traceroute.org.html (local copy)
• (abrant1.html) from www.sputum.com
• (http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel) (hosted by yahoo geocities)
• alt.gothic.spam-fighter (s-f at least) (http://dingo.vut.edu.au/~src/david/agsf/)
• www.brightmail.com - a middleman between your pop3 server and you. They are a rule-based filtering service, where the rules are updated to filter current spam (instead of just "subject contains money" or "subject contains sex" or ip addr is known previous spammer). I dont know if i'd feel comfortable having someone else access my pop3 account for me.
• to sully email databases (http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/)
• spam jargon.html
• dejanews power search for spam (local predefined copy) (dejanews_ps_spam.html) - or - dejanews power search - net generic copy (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml)

• spam dir (./)