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Spam Information

 

"We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere.  The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain." Justice Burger, for the majority, in ROWAN v. U. S. POST OFFICE DEPT. , 397 U.S. 728 (1970)

"[Spammers] have come to court not because their freedom of speech is threatened but because their profits are; to dress up their complaints in First Amendment garb demeans the principles for which the First Amendment stands." US Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin

AITP historical position
Member only discussion forum

Legislation

"you" CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 [S.877]	[status and summary]PASSED [our AITP radio interview]
REDUCE Spam Act of 2003 [H.R.1933]	[status and summary]
Ban on Deceptive Unsolicited Bulk Electronic Mail Act of 2003 [S.1052]	[status and summary]
Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act [H.R.122]	[status and summary]
SPAM Act [S.1231]	[status and summary]
Reduction in Distribution of Spam Act of 2003 [H.R.2214]	[status and summary] [C-SPAN hearing tape]
Anti-Spam Act of 2003 [H.R.2515]	[status and summary]
Computer Owners' Bill of Rights [S.563]	[status and summary]
Criminal Spam Act of 2003 [S.1293]	[status and summary]
State statutes	[existing laws]  Courtesy of SpamCon Foundation
Europe	[status and summary] Courtesy of EuroCAUCE
Britain	[APIG]  [commentary] weak bill in Commons dropped?
Australia	[Internet Industry Association] [good law introduced]

Litigation

Pete Wellborn	AOL
Compuserve v. Wallace	Microsoft
Spamcon Foundation links	Spews/Spamhaus
Ferguson v. Friendfinders (California)	T3 v. McNichol (Australia)
Intel v. Hamidi (California)	Emarketers PACER archive

dnsbls

SPEWS	Registered in Irkutsk, Russia. Lists ISPs who in the opinion of SPEWS fail to terminate spammers (free). Important Note - Because of DDOS attacks, SPEWS zone now available for local download via Yahoo Groups.
Spamhaus	Lists persistent spammers.  When spammer is on a given ISP too long, will list the corporate servers of the ISP (free)
Osirusoft	Shut down by a DDOS attack. No longer available.
MAPS	The grand daddy of RBLs, includes known spammers, open relays, and dialup addresses.  (paid)
Spamcop	Tracks spam runs in progress.  Listing goes away within 48 hours of spam stopping (free)
ORDB	Lists confirmed open relays. Nominations usually follow spam runs using those relays. (free)
SORBS	Lists confirmed open proxies after spam runs through those proxies (free)

 

research tools

OPEN RBL	These are query tools that you can use to check a specific IP address to find out what if any blacklists that IPA is on.  OPEN RBL died in June 2005, apparently for good.
Moenstad
Oriez page	My home spam page
Combat	ultradesign's page of lookup tools
Sam Spade	good windows based desktop research package
Resources	Ferguson's research tools
List Mgmt	Industry best practices for running mailing lists
Abuse Net	Look up abuse desk preferred reporting addresses for all ISPs

Complaint addresses

FDA	Prescription drug spam
FTC	send a copy of any spam received, fraudulent or not
Secret Service	Any scam in the Nigerian style seeking your help to smuggle embezzled money out of Nigeria or other countries
SEC NASAA	Any spam telling you about a great penny stock about to take off.  SEC takes stock fraud reports.  NASAA is interested in stock fraud and any other financial scam of any sort.
Customs	Child porn, particularly foreign child porn (unverified)
USPS	Spam urging you to buy five reports and become a millionaire in a week
Piracy Microsoft Symantec BSA	Spam trying to sell cheap software.  Note Business Software Alliance uses a web form.  Symantec sells Norton products.  In the case of Microsoft and Symantec, only report theft of their own software to them. BSA will take anything else.
Fraud in general	Any fraudulent scheme involving the Internet. That would include 67% of all spam per the FTC statistics
Pyramid schemes	Also known as ponsi schemes
IRS	If the spammer claims great earnings, make sure that he reported and paid taxes on the great earnings

client software

Spamnix	Stata Labs	Mailshell	Blue Squirrel
SpamPal

server software

Procmail

SpamAssassin

Sendmail configuration

Ipswitch configuration

organizations

CAUCE	Leading international organization fighting spammers legislatively
SpamCon foundation	Trades information and resources for anti-spam litigation. Formerly suespammers.org
NANAE	news.admin.net-abuse.email is a usenet discussion group dedicated to spam fighting
Lumber Cartel	Spoof. Some spammers insist that those fighting spam are in the pay of the timber industry

 

AITP Spam Series - Appearing in Information Executive - 2003

Overview	Due Diligence	Technology Options
Legislative status	Litigation	How to complain

 

 

 

 

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