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Put a Spammer in the Slammer by Phil Agre


Part 9
Other resources


Here are the URLs for some other sources of information about spam on the Web. Use your judgement. I do not necessarily endorse any opinions, factual claims, or software programs that these sites might offer:

Email Abuse Frequently Asked Questions
_____ http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/emailfaq.html

SPAM-L Frequently Asked Questions
_____ http://www.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l

Review of the legal issues by Michael W. Carroll
_____ http://server.Berkeley.EDU/BTLJ/articles/11-2/carroll.html

Compendium of proposed federal and state spam laws
_____ http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/laws.html

Comparison of proposed federal spam laws, including text
_____ http://www.junkemail.org/bills/

Spam court cases -- http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases/spam.html

Spam Media Tracker -- http://www-fofa.concordia.ca/spam/news.shtml

Internet Mail Consortium -- http://www.imc.org/imc-spam/

National Fraud Information Center -- http://www.fraud.org/info/contactnfic.htm

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email -- http://www.cauce.org/

spam.abuse.net -- http://spam.abuse.net/

Junkbusters (mostly phone and paper mail) -- http://www.junkbusters.com/

Get That Spammer! (tools for tracking down spammers)
http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html

Spam Hater -- http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam/spam_hater.htm

Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming (technical fixes) -- http://www.nags.org/

Yahoo's guide to anti-spam software
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Communications_and_Networking/Electronic_Mail/Junk_Email/Software/

whois -- for recovering (potentially forged) information on a domain
_____ http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/cgi/whois.cgi
_____ http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois

nslookup -- for looking up the real IP address of a domain name
_____ http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/cgi/nslookup.cgi

traceroute -- unix program for finding a spammer's upstream ISPs
_____ http://www.boardwatch.com/isp/trace.htm

news group concerning abuse of e-mail (not for the faint of heart)
_____ news.admin.net-abuse.email

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