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• Address Munging Considered Harmful

  http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/
  A paper arguing against the practice of spam-blocking on Usenet by using an altered email address.

• Alleee and Franc's Insolitology

  http://www.insolitology.com/usenet/scams.htm
  A description of Nigerian scams (also called 419 scams), with images and links.

• BBC News: MySpace Wins Bumper Spam Payout

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7399868.stm
  Article detailing MySpace's $234m damages win from spammers under the US CAN Spam law, but explaining how they have little chance of getting much, if any, of the cash.

• How the UK Can Stop Spam Without Damaging Free Speech

  http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/prose/spam.html
  Suggested non-extraterritorial UK legislation that would stop spam globally.

• How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-mail and Newsgroups

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3098
  Article about how businesses can advertise without spamming.

• Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam

  http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/spam25.html
  Discussion of spam history and early spam sightings.

• Slashdot - Distributed Spam Detection

  http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/01/1421201
  Threaded discussion of spam detection systems and the razor p2p system specifically.

• Unsolicited Bulk Email: Definitions and Problems

  http://www.imc.org/ube-def.html
  This report discusses the costs of spam.

• Unsolicited Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control

  http://www.imc.org/ube-sol.html
  This report by the Internet Mail Consortium discusses a variety of filtering mechanisms.

 

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