Useful links for Internet Self-Protection
General
Junk Mail
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Junkbusters:
"We want to help you bust the junk messages right out of your
life."
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MAPS Transport Security Initiative:
Information for site admins on how to prevent hijacking of your site for
relaying of mass mail.
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The Declude list
of DNS-based spammer databases.
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Brad Templeton's
home page, supporting approaches to spam
which don't violate individual rights. This view has made him very unpopular
with certain types of anti-spam fanatics.
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Electronic Software Publishing Corporation's
anti-spam page: Information on dealing with electronic junk mail.
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TidBITS #442
gives useful information on reporting junk mail, and a
reminder that it is important to report it and keep reporting it.
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A Wired
article on the case of an Earthlink user mistakenly being identified as a spammer,
pointing out the dangers
of zero-tolerance policies which seek to zap alleged spammers as quickly
as possible.
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Another guide to reading E-mail headers
from stopspam.org.
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SpamCop offers assorted services, some requiring
a subscription fee, to stop spam.
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Monkeys.com spam filtering resources.
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Information on the "Nigerian spam"
(the one which claims to need your help in laundering
a large sum of money from Nigeria) and where to report it.
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antispam.ru: In Russian. I can't read
a word of it, but am told that it has good basic advice.
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samspade.org: Spam tracing tools, both
Web-based and downloadable for Windoze.
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Wired:
Judge blocks Verio's use of whois data for spamming.
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Verio uses legal threats
to intimidate publisher of list of sites that
use a flawed, spam-friendly version of formmail.
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MailArmor, a
Java-based application for filtering and reporting spam. Freeware for
personal home use.
- FTC press release
on action against several allegedly fraudulent
spam schemes.
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t3direct continues legal harassment
against people who cite its spamming operations
and blacklist them.
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Information on the Direct Marketing Association's
support of spamming.
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"Spam I Am," A Dr. Seuss parody.
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Here's a link to Hormel's position
on the use of the term "spam." They have been entirely good sports about the matter;
there's no reason to insult them in return by gratuitously capitalizing the term
as "SPAM."
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Wall Street Journal reports that
Worldcom "enforces" its "antispam" policy by
removing the addresses of people who complain from spam lists, aka "listwashing."
spamspade.org reports (and newsgroup posts confirm) that alleged antispam
site spamarrest.org is actually a spam operation.
Harassment
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"Law
enforcement tries to catch up with online stalkers": A Business
Journal article about online harassment, called "cyberstalking."
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A Washington
Post article on legal approaches being taken against E-mail harassment.
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An article on
"Cyberstalking
Awareness and Education."
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An IEEE arcticle on "E-Mail
Bombs and Countermeasures." Lots of technical detail, including a
discussion of a mailbomb attack on the Langley AFB SMTP E-mail
infrastructure.
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A list of laws against cyberstalking, by state.
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DHS club / clubdepot.com announces campaign of
legal harassment, which they call "Operation Sherman Tank," against ISP's
who block their spam. In standard spammerspeak, they
refer to their unwanted flooding of mailboxes as "commerce" with their victims, and
thus conclude that those who block the flooding are engaging in "restraint of commerce."
While seeking to compel the use of other people's property, they call themselves
"Freedom's Army."
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Spammer George Alan Moore Jr., aka "Dr. Fatburn," attempts legal intimidatation against a website
reporting his activities, and fails.
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What's worse than just spam?
Racist spam.
A Google search turns up a spammer who specializes in selling the addresses of
African-Americans to spammers.
Copyright 1998-2002 by Gary McGath
Last updated June 13, 2003