RESOURCES
Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet is the
title of a research report by the Pew Internet in American Life Project.
http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=102
Search Spamotomy's easy-to-use database of anti-spam tools and find
solutions that may work for your computer and budget.
http://www.spamotomy.com/
Naturally, there has to be a Dummies book about Spam and it's called
Fighting Spam for Dummies by John R. Levine, Ray Everett-Church, Margaret
Levine Young.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764559656/wallybock/
There's some debate about who sent the first true spam message, but
there's very little debate about who it was that first angered enough
folks with spam to draw attention. Those folks were two immigration
lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel. They even wrote a book based
on their experience, called, ow to Make a Fortune on the Information
Superhighway: Everyone's Guerrilla Guide to Marketing on the Internet and
Other On-Line Services. Today it has mostly historical interest, but if
you want an idea for how similar some of today's debates sound compared to
several years ago, pick up a used copy on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062720651/wallybock/
There are several online resources to help you deal with Spam. The
following list does NOT include any software vendors. I chose to include
information sources only and I found that some of those were highly
technical. That's why this list is in rough order from least technically
sophisticated to most technically sophisticated.
My article "Tips for Dealing with Spam"
http://www.bockinfo.com/040315postcard.htm
Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/
The Federal Trade Commission has a Spam Forum
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/
The Internet Law and Policy Forum
http://www.ilpf.org/
CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
http://www.cauce.org/
The Direct Marketing Association
http://www.the-dma.org/
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org/
Spam Protection Early Warning System
http://spews.org/
The Internet Research Task Force's Anti-Spam Research Group
http://asrg.sp.am/
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