Anti-Spam Software

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Books: (let me know if you suggest any particular ones -- I'll try to add more specific titles soon.)

• Books on spam
• Anti-Spam Tool Kit by Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott, Mike Erwin (March, 2004)
• Blocking Spam for Business for Dummies (March, 2005)
• Canning Spam : You've Got Mail (That You Don't Want) by Jeremy Poteet (May 2004)
• Degunking your Email, Spam, and Viruses by Jeff Duntemann (October, 2004)
• Ending Spam from No Starch Pres (January, 2005)
• Fighting Spam for Dummies (January, 2004)
• How to Do Everything to Fight Spam, Viruses, Pop-Ups, and Spyware (How to Do Everything) by Ken Feinstein (July, 2004)
• sendmail Milters : A Guide for Fighting Spam by Bryan Costales, Marcia Flynt (January, 2005)
• Slamming Spam : A Guide for System Administrators by Robert Haskins, Dale Nielsen (December, 2004)
• SpamAssassin from O'Reilly (July, 2004)
• SpamAssassin: A Practical Guide to Integration and Configuration from Packt Publishing (September, 2004)
• Stopping Spam from O'Reilly (October, 1998)
• Take Control of Apple Mail : Solve Problems, Work Smart, and End Spam by Joe Kissell and Adam Engst, Peachpit Press (October, 2004)
  

Specific strategies:

• Paul Graham's anti-spam site is a great information resource, including descriptions of various strategies
• Bayesian:
  • Why Bayesian filtering is the most effective anti-spam technology white paper by GFI (who makes a Bayesian filtering product...) Same link has their "What features to look for in anti-spam technology" white paper available.

Newsgroups:

• news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins
• news.admin.net-abuse.email
• news.admin.net-abuse.misc
• news.admin.net-abuse.policy
• news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
• news.admin.net-abuse.usenet

Spam Laws:

• Kansas no spam law.
• SpamLaws.com
• on a related note, see junkfaxes.org

Problems with getting angry at the wrong party:

• Joe's story
• Collateral Spam

General spam information:

• MSExchange.org's Anti Spam section
• JMHO on Spam has info on how to report spam.
• SamSpade.org helps you find reporting addresses and upstream providers.
• MAPS: Mail Abuse Prevention System, LLC (Legal Defense Fund)
• CAUCE: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
• abuse.net (Boycott Internet Spam page) (How To Complain page, info on tracking down proper source)
• The Spamhaus Project
• Spamsites.org
• FREE Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email
• a nice spam FAQ
• full headers FAQ/instructions
• Spam Recycling Center
• SpamArchive.org "is a community resource that provides a database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools.Ê The goal of this project is to provide a large repository of spam that can be used by researchers and tool developers. In the past, there were a few small personal spam archives that were used. There was no large set of spam that could be used to test new anti-spam algorithms. Thus, developers could not sufficiently test their techniques across a range of messages. Also, the lack of a "standard" sample of spam made it difficult to effectively benchmark anti-spam tools."
• Whois helps trace owners of a domain. (but be sure you have the right domain)
• Elsop's Anti-Spam Page
• suespammers.org
• Stopspam.org (Reading Email Headers to determine real origin)
• Whew.com's anti-spam page includes step-by-step instructions for spam reporting
• antispam.org.br
• translations of spam complaints
• CIAC
• CERT

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