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Spam related answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs), articles, book and internet standards.
A few attempts to define and codify what spam is.
http://www.monkeys.com/spam-defined/
http://www.mail-abuse.org/standard.html
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/define.html
http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=spam
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm?term=spam
http://www.caube.org.au/whatis.htm
http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html
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Internet Mail Consortium: http://www.imc.org/bulk-email.html
EU: http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/studies/spam_en.htm
ISP Consortium: http://www.ispc.org/policy/spam.shtml
Electronic Freedom Foundation: http://www.eff.org/Spam_cybersquatting_abuse/Spam/position_on_junk_email.html
Global Internet Project: http://www.gip.org/publications/classification.asp?CLASSIFICATION_ID=6#28
Microsoft; Bill Gates: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/columns/1998Essay/3-25col.asp
Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/03-22heckerman.asp
RIPE: http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/faq/stop_spam.html
APNIC: http://www.apnic.net/info/faq/abuse/spam.html
Swiss Internet User Group: http://www.siug.ch/positionen/SIUG-Spam.shtml
ICANN: http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20021130.NCWhoisTF-accuracy-and-bulkaccess.html
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http://www.sans.org/rr/email/spam_battle.php
http://www.davros.org/legal/dmaspam.html
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/tomorrow/tomorrownetstrikes.html
http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Computers/Netiquette/Spam.SunWorld.html
http://www.eff.org/Spam_cybersquatting_abuse/Spam/
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_2/beke/
http://w3.one.net/~banks/spam.htm
http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/spam/
http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/spam.html
http://email.about.com/library/series/blspam_series.htm
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/Spam.html
http://www.vgmusic.com/~mike/an_analytical_look_at_spam.html
http://www.pan-am.ca/spammyths/magicbullets.html
http://www.pan-am.ca/spammyths/whenspamstrikes.html
http://www.spamprimer.com/
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/
http://www.favreau.info/display.php?page=antispam
http://www.email911.com/ebooks/10tips.pdf
http://www.amazed.nl/amazed/helpdesk/spam.html
(Dutch)
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/09/spam/
http://www.cpsr.org/program/privacy/spam_jj.html
http://www.lsoft.com/info/default.asp?item=spamorama
http://www.ferris.com/offer/spam.html
http://www.bluefeathertech.com/SpamPaper.pdf
http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf
http://www.waltdnes.org/essays/ube.html
http://www.linxnet.com/misc/spam/thank_spammers.html
http://www.radicati.com/cgi-local/brochure.pl?pub_id=202&part=head&subscr=&back_link=/single_report/index.shtml
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Broad guides on net-abuse and spam, and what to do about it.
SpamFaq: http://www.spamfaq.net/
Spam-L: http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/
(mirror: http://www.treachery.net/mirrors/spam-l/.
Italian: http://www.fighters4web.com/pagine/rintracciare.html)
nan-ae: http://samspade.org/d/nanaefaq.html
alt.spam: http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html
(mirror: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/spam-faq/)
Spam.Abuse.Net: http://spam.abuse.net/
SpamCon Foundation: http://www.spamcon.org/
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Guides in a few other languages.
Italian: http://www.collinelli.net/antispam/
Italian: http://www.maxkava.com/spam.htm
French: http://www.usenet-fr.net/fur/usenet/abus/reagir-conseils.html
French: http://www.arobase.org/spam/index.htm
French: http://www-alt.pasteur.fr/~bortz/JRES97/AntiSpam/
French: http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~pda/kit-jussieu/anti-spam/anti-spam.html
French: http://www.cnil.fr/frame.htm?thematic/internet/spam/spam_sommaire.htm
Chinese: http://www.ofta.gov.hk/chinese/junk-email/chi_page1.htm
Taiwanese: http://spam.gsnmm.gov.tw/
Belgian: http://allserv.rug.ac.be/helpdesk/software/spam.html
Spanish: http://www.rnp.br/newsgen/0101/spam.shtml
German: http://spam.trash.net/
German: http://home.snafu.de/laura/de.admin.net-abuse.mail.txt.
Mirrors: 1
2
Japanese: http://www.geocities.com/skhirojp/
Esperanto: http://www.esperanto.net/veb/spam-faq.html
Polish: http://arch.ipsec.pl/art/spam-faq.html
Norweigian: http://cert.nic.hu/ismertetok/spam_uj.html
Portugese: http://diginetbr.tripod.com/internet/e_spam.htm
Korean: http://www.privacy.or.kr/spam_mail/
Danish: https://www.cert.dk/sikkerhed/spam.shtml
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See Prospam
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Read the Spam Tracking Overviews and see Tracing Spam and Researching Spammers.
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See Reporting Spam.
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See Filtering Spam and Hiding Your Email Address. Don't reply to spammers: http://www.iki.fi/kaip/spam/remove.en.html
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Guides to generally acceptable behaviour on the internet.
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
http://hillhouse.ckp.edu/~gene/new.html
http://learn.to/edit_messages
http://unquietmind.com/email.html
(German version: http://www.dominik-boecker.de/email/)
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Various examples and explanations of what is wrong with spam.
http://www.cauce.org/about/faq.shtml
http://www.badads.org/email.shtml
http://www.spamfaq.net/spam-evils.shtml
http://www.efuse.com/Grow/postage_due.html
http://www.emailresults.com/articles/tenreasons.html
http://members.aol.com/frederi108/explain/commercial_ads.txt
http://www.whiteice.com/why.html
http://www.panix.com/~moz/russ.txt
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/evil.html
http://www.clifto.com/7359.html
http://homepage.mac.com/redbird/doc/neg_impacts_spam.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Village/2066/spam-bad.txt
http://www.spin.it/spam/spam_problem.php3
http://www.cabal.net/spamrants/
http://spam.abuse.net/overview/spambad.shtml
http://www.unik.no/~robert/spam/
http://www.imc.org/ube-def.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/spamdiff.html
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Generally "back of the envelope" estimates of the financial cost of spam, in varying contexts.
http://www.cauce.org/pressreleases/math.shtml
http://www.twinlobber.org.uk/antispam/maths.shtml
http://www.cmsconnect.com/marketing/spamcalc.htm
http://www.emailresults.com/articles/costofspam.html
http://www.ecofuture.org/jm/spam_cost.html
http://www.aboutspam.com/thedma.php
http://www.tmisnet.com/~strads/spam/costcalc.html
http://marvin.sihope.com/cgi-bin/costofspam.cgi
http://store.sendmail.com/cgi-bin/smistore/products/spamroi.jsp
http://www.mxlogic.com/calculator/
http://www.killsspamdead.com/roi.jsp
http://www.eprivacygroup.com/article/articlestatic/58/1/6
http://www.sonicmail.net/roi_calculator.html
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Tales of the adverse human impact of spam.
See also: Scams > MMF > Victims
http://www.joes.com/spammed.html
http://www.twowriters.net/spam.htm
http://www.1099.com/c/co/gw/lf/linda003.html
http://www.net-market.com/horror.htm
http://people.delphi.com/lfirrantello/nospam/antispam_damage.html
http://www.honet.com/Nadine/
http://www.jahitchcock.com/cyberstalked/
http://snyderd.home.mindspring.com/
http://www.linux.org/about/spam.html
http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam/
http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/ueff/
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http://www.euro.cauce.org/en/freespeech.html
http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/comm/spam.html
Guides to the esoteric vocabulary used when discussing spam.
The internet side of the jargon.
http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml
http://www.rahul.net/falk/glossary.html
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/freenet/subs/complaints/spam/jargon.txt
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html
http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/resources.html#glossary
http://www.linux-france.org/prj/jargonf/
(En Français)
http://www.caspam.org/lexicas.html
(En Français)
http://www.cluelessmailers.org/glossary.html
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/spammeister/glossary.html
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The marketing side of the jargon.
http://www.permissionmail.org/glossary.html
http://www.marketingterms.com/
http://www.stop-spam.org/On-Line_Marketing/OPT-IN_Email/
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Some other interesting articles.
http://www.spamresource.com/
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/
(multiple articles)
http://howardk.moonfall.com/lysander/journal.html
http://people.delphi.com/lfirrantello/nospam/antispam_essays.html
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/rants/spam.html
Out Of Print: Stopping Spam, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, 1998)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progintemail/
(Programming Internet Email, David Wood, 1999)
http://www.sethgodin.com/permission/
(Permission Marketing, Seth Godin, 1999)
http://www.netcrimes.net/ (Net Crimes
& Misdemeanors, J.A. Hitchcock, edited by Loraine Page)
http://www.aboutspam.com/book01.php
(To be completed)
http://w3.one.net/~banks/psycho.htm
(Web Psychos, Stalkers, and Pranksters: How to Protect Yourself in Cyberspace,
Michael A. Banks)
http://www.how-do-i-stop-spam.com/
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/BooksOn419.htm
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc706.html
(On the Junk Mail Problem)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1123.html
(Requirements of Internet Hosts - Application and Support)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1211.html (List Management)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
(Netiquette)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1893.html
(Enhanced Mail System Status Codes)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2142.html
(mailbox names - abuse@ etc.)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html
(Core Mail List Commands)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2505.html
(Anti-spam for SMTP)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2554.html
(SMTP-Auth)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2635.html
("Don't Spew")
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html
(SMTP)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
(Format for Email)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2919.html
(Identification of Mailing Lists)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3028.html
(Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3098.html
(How to advertise responsibly on the net)
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http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/spam.html
(RIPE best-practice on UBE/UCE)
http://www.ietf.org/ID.html (Internet
Drafts. See: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/)
http://www.linx.net/noncore/bcp/ube-bcp.html
(LINX best current practice)
http://home.earthlink.net/~marvinglenn/dbl/
http://martinh.net/antispam/
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt
(new DNS resource records. Try ...smtp-03.txt etc. if ...smtp-02.txt fails)
http://www.danisch.de/tmp/draft_mtp.txt
http://www.pan-am.ca/draft-ietf-asrg-dsprotocol-00.txt
http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt
http://ietfreport.isoc.org/ids/draft-fecyk-dsprotocol-02.txt
(designated senders protocol)
http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-overview
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/draft-asrg-anti-spam-requirements.txt
http://www.eprivacygroup.com/teos/
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