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Address Munging Considered Harmful - A paper arguing against the practice of spam-blocking on Usenet by using an altered email address.
www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful
Al Iverson's Spamresource.com - Collection of articles written by a former employee of MAPS.
www.spamresource.com
Alleee and Franc's Insolitology - A description of Nigerian scams (also called 419 scams), with images and links.
www.insolitology.com/usenet/scams.htm
E-mail Marketing Articles - Articles about how e-mail marketers can avoid spamming.
www.emailresults.com/articles.html
How Bulk E-mail Can Destroy Your Small Business - An editorial on the negative effects of sending spam.
www.twowriters.net/spam.htm
How the UK Can Stop Spam Without Damaging Free Speech - Suggested non-extraterritorial UK legislation that would stop spam globally.
www.jdawiseman.com/papers/prose/spam.html
How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-mail and Newsgroups - Article about how businesses can advertise without spamming.
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3098.txt
In Defense of Unsolicited Bulk Email - Presents arguments in favor of using UCE in marketing.
www.provider.com/framesbulke.htm
Information Filtering Resources - Papers about and links to projects about ways of filtering electronic information.
www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter
MessageMedia:Case Studies/White Papers - 'Sometimes the Messenger Should Be Shot: Building a Spam-Free E-mail Marketing Program' discusses the negative repercussions of sending bulk e-mail.
www.messagemedia.com/rc/case_studies.shtml
NYTimes.com - 3 Web Sites Closed in Spam Inquiry - Three companies using email to solicit the sale of nonexistent web addresses have been ordered to close their web businesses. [required free NYTimes.com registration to view]
www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/technology/12SPAM.html
On Spam: Wasting time on the Internet - Bill Gates gives his views on spam.
www.microsoft.com/BillGates/columns/1998essay/3-25col.asp
Onlinecasinonews.com - Internet Casinos are Spammers - What's behind the recent surge in junk e-mail.
www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocn/article/article.asp?id=1234
Outlook SPAM Tutorial - Tutorial to provide easy way to filter your unwanted junk email in Outlook and Outlook Express.
www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/spam.htm
Slashdot - Distributed Spam Detection - Threaded discussion of spam detection systems and the razor p2p system specifically.
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/01/1421201&mode=thread
Spam v. Profit - An e-mail marketer argues that ISPs can profit from e-mail marketing if it is done responsibly.
www.isp-planet.com/perspectives/chooseyourmail.html
Spam, Lies and Fake Reporters - Describes the tactics of Opt In Inc. and the president of Opt In Inc., Charles "Steve" Hardigree.
www.nukespam.org/OptInInc.html
Unsolicited Bulk Email: Definitions and Problems - This report discusses the costs of spam.
www.imc.org/ube-def.html
Unsolicited Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control - This report by the Internet Mail Consortium discusses a variety of filtering mechanisms.
www.imc.org/ube-sol.html
Why Spam Is Bad - A collection of links to help show Internet marketers why spam is harmful to their business and to provide some alternative means of responsible marketing.
www.whyspamisbad.com