Antispam tools

• SpamBayes: python bayesian spam classifier
• Bogofilter: Eric Raymond, Bayesian

Spam risk

• The Great CNET Spam-off

California Law

• The CAUCE-supported law enacted on Jan 1, 1999 is 17538.45 of the Business and Professions Code
• Article about new California Anti-Spam Law
• Article about two new (Jan 1, 1999) antispam laws
• California enacts antispam laws

Misc useful spam-related sites

• Spam news
• BMPP internet draft
• Good precedent: high school spammer, injunction, confiscation
• TBTF article (very good, and also a dead link)
• CAUCE
• Nathan's
• Abusing the net (Bob Williams)
• Blacklist of internet spammers (ostensibly "advertisers")
• Alex's
• Cancelmoose
• This judge should be removed from office
• Donna Troy's mail filtering service

false return address (flowers.com case)

• Flowers.com
• Wired

About stopping spam

• draft-ietf-run-adverts-00.txt
• draft-hoffman-legis-smtp-banner-02: banners to declare stance on spam, and location
• Stopping Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
• abuse.net - reporting network abuse (including spam). Has a database of reporting addresses.
• DON'T SPEW: A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam)
• rbl-milter: don't block all mail from open relays, just give it a magic header so endusers can each make their own choice about what to do with it.

complaining about spam

• easyst (what to do, but not how to do it)
• AOL's e-mail abuse FAQ (more what to do, but not how to do it)
• spam-l FAQ (lots of how to do it, but not easy for people who aren't that into computers)
• O'Reilly: Stopping spam (I haven't read this, but it's probably pretty good - O'Reilly books tend to be that way)