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- Greg Byshenk's Help I've been Spammed! What do I do? http://www.byshenk.net/ive.been.spammed.html
- This article explains how to complain about spam messages and gives good
hints about how to avoid it. If you're thinking about using a faked email
address to minimize the spam you receive (although many people, including
me, find this terribly annoying), read this article before you do it. It explains
how to do it right. (Doing it wrong could cause a lot of wasted effort for
innocent Internet servers.)
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- Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations, ROKSO, http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/
- "The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database collates information and evidence on known professional spam operations that have been terminated by a minimum of 3 Internet Service Providers for spam offenses."
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- Reading Email Headers, http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers.html
- This article could use a table of contents, but it does live up to its
subtitle: "All About Email Headers" .
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- pobox.com's How to Read Email Headers, http://pobox.com/headers.mhtml
- Reading email headers helps you fight spam, which is the purpose of these pages.
It includes an explanation of the time system used
in email headers and goes through the steps you'll use to complain about a
spam message.
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- DShield.org's Whois lookup page, http://www.dshield.org/ipinfo.php
- This is a good way to query the Whois database; the data returned includes
the name and contact info for a technical contact person for the machine.
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- Spam Cop: http://spamcop.net/ and Network
Abuse Clearinghouse: http://www.abuse.net/
- The major organizations that provide automated spam compliant services.
Or you can forward your spam email to the US Federal Trade Commission's spam
collection address: uce@ftc.org (http://www.ftc.gov/spam/).
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- MAPS Mail Abuse Prevention System: http://www.mail-abuse.com/
- MAPS is a not-for-profit organization "whose mission is to defend the
Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers." They keep lists of
machines that participate in spam; ISPs may subscribe to their lists for automatic
filtering of mail from those machines. Many people think MAPS goes a bit too
far -- in their most strict program, all email is blocked from MAPS restricted
sites, both incoming and outgoing.
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- InfoBear's nslookup Web site, http://www.infobear.com/nslookup.shtml
- Use nslookup to find the IP address of a given Internet hostname or the
hostname for a given IP address.
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- The official Internet "Request for Comments" that described email
headers, RFC 822.
- Like most other RFCs, this RFC is very technical, but these sites break
it down into small chunks so that you don't get overwhelmed: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/
from the W3C and http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/822/
from Freesoft.
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