The Library
Local Documents
- SamSpade.org Frequently Asked Questions
- A FAQ about this website and the services offered
- IP & DNS
- A tutorial on IP addresses and domain name servers
- traceroute
- A whimsical description of traceroute
- Decoding JavaScript
- How to deal with webpages obfuscated using JavaScript
- news.admin.net-abuse.email FAQ
- A few frequently asked questions that aren't covered elsewhere
- ISO 3166 Country Codes
- Need to know where in the world http://www.vatican.va/ is?
- Tools
- A short list of tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Email Abuse
- Abuse of email, including mailbombs, unsolicited bulk email.
- Email Abuse Resources
- Currently unavailable
- Internet Abuse
- Another list of documents
- Net Abuse
- Most of the FAQs about the news.admin.net-abuse.* usenet hierarchy
- Procmail
- A mail filtering system for unix
- Frequently asked questions about spam
- Legal and ethical issues with online advertising
- Deciphering E-mail and Posts
- A huge list of resources
- Tactical Net Abuse
- Dealing with online trolls
- Dealing with Trolls, Crossposting and Flames
- How to protect your newsgroup from vandals.
- Teergrubing
- Building tar pits to slow down email. Generally ineffective.
- CAUCE FAQ
- About the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email.
- Address Forgery
- How to break your email address. Doing this at all when sending email is extremely rude. Doing this the wrong way on usenet, ditto. This document will tell you the right way to do it when posting to usenet - then it's only somewhat rude.
- Filtering Mail
- Filtering mail on unix systems using procmail, mailagent and the elm filter
- news.admin.net-abuse.*
- All about the news.admin.net-abuse.* usenet hierarchy
RFCs
RFCs are the working documents and rules of the Internet. They are the authoritative answer on any internet related technical question.
- Some relevant RFCs:
- Netiquette
- RFC 1855
- Internet Protocol
- RFC 792, RFC 1122
- Private Addresses
- RFC 1918
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
- RFC 821
- Mail Format
- RFC 822, RFC 1138, RFC 1148, RFC 1327, RFC 2156
- Post Office Protocol (POP3)
- RFC 1939, RFC 1957
- HTTP/1.1
- RFC 2068
- Site Security
- RFC 2196
- Mailbox Names
- RFC 2142
- Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
- RFC 977
Other Resources
Usenet
- news.admin.net-abuse.email
- News.admin.net-abuse.email is a forum for discussion of possible abuses of e-mail. Possible topics include mailbombing, denial-of-service attacks, "listserv bombs", unsolicited and/or unwanted mail, email address lists, mailing list abuse, large-scale mailings in general, chain letters, "email viruses" such as Good Times, filtering software such as procmail, and so forth.
- High noise. Moderate signal.
- news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
- News.admin.net-abuse.usenet is a forum for discussion of possible abuses of Usenet. Possible topics include spamming or Excessive Multi-Posting (EMP), Excessive Cross-Posting (ECP), Usenet chain letters such as MAKE.MONEY.FAST, forged or third-party cancellations, broken Usenet gateways, forgery of another user, forged approvals in moderated groups, massively crossposted "flametrolls", abuse of the newsgroup creation system, general purpose netiquette, and so forth.
- High noise. Low signal.
- news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
- News.admin.net-abuse.sightings is a forum for reports of sightings of net abuse.
- alt.spam
- Originally intended for the discussion of SPAM it's now mostly discussion of email and occasionally usenet abuse. A kinder, gentler news.admin.net-abuse.email, the signal level is lower, but so is the noise level. A good place for newbies to ask for help and advice.
Mailing lists
- SPAM-L
- SPAM-L is a LISTSERV mailing list created on August 18th, 1995 and is dedicated to "Spam prevention and Discussion". That means discussion of spam-prevention, not debating the merits (or lack thereof) of spam. Tips, tricks, procmail recipes, resources forfighting spam, etc. are all welcome. In addition, many people copy SPAM-L on their response to a given spam. This is OK, within certain guidelines.
- Spamtools
- The spamtools mailing list is dedicated to software tools that detect and process unsolicited bulk e-mail. Tools for any platform are of interest, although most user-level tools are written for Unix and for Windows, and most server-level tools are for Unix.
- Freemail
- Hosted by the Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email it's a good place to kick around ideas, call for local help, bitch about the website, etc.
Other Documents and Websites
- Spam fighting at abuse.net
- Lots of good stuff hosted by abuse.net, the net abuse clearinghouse. Includes lots of ways of filtering spam of all flavours from your account or an entire site.
- S.P.(U.T.U.)M.
- Primarily about usenet spam rather than email spam. Well worth a read, particularly SpuTools®
- Tracking the source of email spam
- Ed Falks fine description of what the different lines in an email header mean, and what to look at to trace the source of a spam
- All about spam
- Introduction to spam, and a few ways to reduce the amount you get
- The Anti-Spam HOWTO
- Good, short introduction to the basics of decoding headers and finding the right postmaster to complain to
- The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- Lots of background, history and politics
- Death to Spam!
- Some good advice on retaliating against spam. Be very careful about threatening Denial-of-Service attacks against the host ISP, though. Doing it is illegal in most places, threatening it may be illegal in some.
- Jason Walter, have a nice day!
- One case study in spammer hunting.
- Yahoo - spam
- Lots more resources at Yahoo!
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