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MORE SPAM HELP

If your address was harvested and you get spammed, the following pages could
assist you in tracking the spammer down :

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

A. WD Baseley's Address Munging FAQ


http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html

B. Fight Spam on the Internet site http://spam.abuse.net/


C. The Spam Recycling Center http://www.spamrecycle.com/
W. The Junk Busters Site http://www.junkbusters.com/

X. The Junk Email site http://www.junkemail.org/

Y. BCP 30: Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-


notes/bcp/bcp30.txt

Z. 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 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/

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/
Y. No More Spam - ISP Spam-Blocking Interferes With Business
http://www.byte.com/columns/digitalbiz/1999/04/0405coombs.html

Z. 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/ Also see the WA State Resident site
http://www.wa-state-resident.com/

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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