Spam Links
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[ How to avoid it ] [ Links ]
- CAUCE - Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- An organisation (which you can join for free) trying to fight spam through lobbying and legislation.
- Spam Recycling Center
- Helps you to forward spam to your state legislator and congerssmen, offers two free spam filters, and lets you turn your spam into Omaha Steaks and other merchandise (for real)!
- Fight Spam on the Internet!
- Very good and informative site about spam and it's problems.
- About.com Spam Series
- The most collectively informative site I have come across about spam.
- Stop Spam
- A site like mine, but more throughrough and developed. Also has information about hoaxes and urban legend. Very good; definitely reccommended. Home of the Get Empowered Webring.
- Unsolicited E-mail - State Statutes
- The John Marshall Law School in Chicago lists the American state statutes and pending legislations on spam.
- Junkemail
- Helps you with lawsuits against spam and gathers information on frudulent spammed mail and collects such spams in order to forward it to FTC .
- SpamCop
- Submit the header of a spammed mail and SpamCop will parse the headers of unwanted email and phrase a complaint to the system administrator responsible for the spammer's internet access addresed from you (you will have a chance to review and edit the complaint before it is sent).
- Filtering Spam
- A very useful document on how to set your mail client to filter out unwanted mail.
- Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center
- List of fake virus hoaxes that has circled the net.
- Reading e-mail headers
- Explains e-mail headers and how to interpret them. Pretty technical but interesting. Useful for learning how to filter your mail.
- How To Interpret Email Headers
- An other good site on learning more about e-mail headers. Easier to read than the above link, but they complement each other well.
- ICQ Anti Spam
- Explains how to filter out unsolicited messages on ICQ.
- Lies, Damn Lies & ICQ Messages
- About the stupidity of forwarding warnings in ICQ messages. Great site.
- Compulsive Forwarding
- Heavily sarcastic page about forwarding on ICQ.
- Rumours on ICQ
- About the continuously circulating rumours about ICQ starting to charge for their program, viruses, and "evil" users.
- Rumours on ICQ - Official ICQ page
- Read this before you forward any kind of warning on ICQ!
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