There are a number of great resources available to report spam
abuse. In order to properly report Spam abuse you need to learn
how to read the e-mail headers. This can be tricky since many
spammers have found ways to try to manipulate the headers to
hind their origine.
1. MindSpring's page explaining how to get an email's headers
http://help.mindspring.com/features/emailheaders/extended.htm
2. The spam FAQ, maintained by Ken Hollis.
http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/net-abuse-faq/spam-faq.html
3. The Reporting Spam page, an excellent resource.
http://www.ao.net/waytosuccess/
4. Reading Mail headers.
http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html
5. Julian Haight's Spam Cop page.
http://spamcop.net/
6. Chris Hibbert's Junk Mail FAQ.
http://www.fortnet.org/WidowNet/faqs/junkmail.htm
7. UXN Spam Combat page.
http://www.ultradesign.com/engineering/uxn/
8. Sam Spade, Spam hunter.
http://samspade.org/t/
9. Penn's Page of Spam.
http://home.att.net/~penn/spam.htm
10. WD Baseley's Address Munging FAQ
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
11. Fight Spam on the Internet site
http://spam.abuse.net/
12. The Spam Recycling Center
http://www.spamrecycle.com/
13. The Junk Busters Site
http://www.junkbusters.com/
14. The Junk Email site
http://www.junkemail.org/
15. BCP 30: Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/bcp/bcp30.txt
16. FYI 28: Netiquette Guidelines
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/fyi/fyi28.txt
FYI 35: DON'T SPEW
A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/fyi/fyi35.txt
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Several sites on the web will help in tracing spam
:
1. Sam Bretheim's list of traceroute gateways
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4273/gateways.html
To find traceroute gateways in any country, visit here.
http://www.traceroute.org/
Specific traceroute pages
http://net.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/trace.sh
http://wwwcs.cern.ch/public/status/tools/traceroute.html
2. Allwhois.com gates to whois on any domain world-wide
http://www.allwhois.com/
3. A list of whois servers, collected by Matt Power
ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list
4. Alldomains.com site - links to NICs worldwide.
http://www.alldomains.com/
A similar page can be found at
http://www.forumnett.no/domreg.html
5. The Coalition Against Usolicited Commerical E-mail.
http://www.cauce.org/
The European CAUCE.
http://www.euro.cauce.org/en/index.html
The Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia.
http://www.caube.org.au/
The Russian Anti-Spam organization.
http://www.antispam.ru/
6. No More Spam - ISP Spam-Blocking Interferes With Business
http://www.byte.com/columns/digitalbiz/1999/04/0405coombs.html
Removing the Spam
By Geoff Mulligan
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN 0-201-37957-0
A good book about handling spam.
Legal resources :
1. FTC Consumer Alert -
FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely to Arrive
Via Bulk email
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/doznalrt.htm
2. Report to the Federal Trade Commision of the Ad-Hoc Working
Group
on Unsolicited Commercial Mail.
http://www.cdt.org/spam/
3. Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi Schemes, and Related Frauds
http://www.impulse.net/~thebob/Pyramid.html
4. The AOL vs. Cyberpromo case
http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/dljunk/cyber.html
The AOL vs. the Christian Brothers (the apricot seeds as a
cancer
cure spammers) case.
http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?97775/topstories
5. "Intel scores in email suit", by Jim Hu, CNET
News.com.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,29574,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh
6. The John Marshall Law School spam page
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/spam.html
7. First amendment issues related to UBE, by Paul L. Schmehl.
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/spam_law.html
8. Hawaii's Anti-Spam Law
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session1999/bills/sb651%5F.htm
9. Washington's Anti-Spam Law
ftp://ftp.leg.wa.gov/pub/rcw/title_19/chapter_190/
http://www.wa.gov/ago/junkemail/
10. Also see the WA State Resident site
http://www.wa-state-resident.com/
11. A news story about a relevant court case can be found
at
http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_story.pl?156067/topstories
A. California's Anti-Spam Law
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_1629&sess=PREV&house=B
B. Virginia's Anti-Spam Law
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val=hb1714
C. Nevada's Anti-Spam Law
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email/nvsb13.html
D. The UK Data Protection Law
http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
E. The Italian Anti-Spam Law
http://www.interlex.com/testi/dlg99185.htm
F. The Austrian Telecm Law
http://www.parlament.gv.at/pd/pm/XX/I/texte/020/I02064_.html
http://www.bmv.gv.at/tk/3telecom/recht/tkg/inhalt.htm
G. The Norwegian Marketing Control Act
http://www.forbrukerombudet.no/html/engelsk/themcact.htm
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