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- Summary: A list intended as a resource, or clearinghouse, for information, tools, news, and sites relating to email abuse
- X-Last-Updated: 1998/07/29
- Originator: faqserv@penguin-lust.MIT.EDU
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- Archive-name: net-abuse-faq/resource-list
- Posting-frequency: weekly
- Last-modified: June 25, 1998
- Version: 1.02
- URL: http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/resource-list.html
- FTP: ftp://members.aol.com/emailfaq/resource-list.txt
- Copyright: (c) 1996-1998 WD Baseley
- Maintainer: emailfaq@aol.com (WD Baseley)
-
- Email Abuse Resource List
-
- Version 1.02 changes:
- URL errors and broken links corrected/deleted
- NEW links in Primary Sources
- NEW links in Tools
-
- DISCLAIMER:
- This document reflects the opinions of the author. This
- document and its author are not associated with AOL in any
- official capacity whatever. This document is provided
- "as is" without any express or implied warranties. While every
- effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information
- contained in this article, the author/maintainer/contributors
- assume(s) no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages
- resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 1. Table of Contents
-
- 1. Table of Contents
-
- 2. Basics
- 2a. Who is responsible for this list?
- 2b. What is the purpose of this list?
- 2c. When was this list last updated?
- 2d. Where can I get it?
- 2e. Credits & Contributors
-
- 3. Primary Sources
- 3a. Tim Skirvin's news.admin.net-abuse.* web page
- 3b. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- 3c. Scott Hazen Mueller's Fight Spam on the Internet! web site
- 3d. Paul Vixie's MAPS (Mail Abuse Protection System) Initiative
- 3e. Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email (FREE)
- 3f. Leah Roberts' LARGE list of anti-spam resources
- 3g. Julian Byrne's Get That Spammer! page
- 3h. FAQs
-
- 4. Legal Links
- 4a. Lawsuits
- 4b. Legal Resources
- 4c. Laws that are or may be applicable to U*E
- 4d. Bills pending in US Congress
-
- 5. Tools
- 5a. procmail and email filtering resources
- 5b. Configuring your email client to show all headers
- 5c. Deciphering headers
- 5d. Lists
- 5e. Hunting/Tracking/Responding
-
- 6. Agencies
- 6a. US Postal Service
- 6b. Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
- 6c. National Fraud Information Center
- 6d. Federal Trade Commission
- 6e. Securities and Exchange Commission
- 6f. U.S. Consumer Gateway
- 6g. Pennsylvania Attorney General
-
- 7. Abuse Addresses of Major Service Providers
-
- 8. AUPs and Terms of Service
-
- 9. Responsible Online Marketing
-
- 10. Netiquette
-
- 11. Etcetera
-
- End of Email Abuse Resource List
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 2. Basics
-
- 2a. Who is responsible for this list?
-
- WD Baseley. Use emailfaq@aol.com to contact the author about this
- document.
-
- NOTE: This document and its author are not associtated with AOL
- in any official capacity whatever.
-
- Much of this information has been gleaned from AUP's, posts, and
- suggestions from others. The author, while attempting to be as
- accurate as possible, cannot vouch for the veracity of everything in
- this document. Please feel free to contact the author with
- corrections and suggested additions.
-
- 2b. What is the purpose of this list?
-
- This list is intended as a resource, a clearinghouse if you will, for
- information, tools, news, and sites relating to email abuse. Originally,
- it was an appendix to the Email Abuse FAQ. It should be regarded as
- a work-in-progress; contact the current maintainer of this list for an
- up-to-date copy.
-
- 2c. When was this list last updated?
-
- June 25, 1998
-
- 2d. Where can I get it?
-
- This list will be posted to news.admin.net-abuse.email once per week.
- The latest version is always available at:
- <http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/resource-list.html>
- <ftp://members.aol.com/emailfaq/resource-list.txt>
-
- 2e. Credits & Contributors
-
- The net is unique among communications media in that it is quite
- literally owned by the same folks who use it. Many of them take
- action against abuses of the system. The author wishes to thank
- the people behind each of the resources listed in this document,
- for their continuing efforts to improve the way things work.
-
-
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-
- Subject: 3. Primary Sources
-
- 3a. Tim Skirvin's news.admin.net-abuse.* web page
- <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/nana/>
-
- 3b. The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- <http://www.cauce.org>
-
- 3c. Scott Hazen Mueller's Fight Spam on the Internet! web site
- <http://spam.abuse.net>
-
- 3d. Paul Vixie's MAPS (Mail Abuse Protection System) Initiative
- <http://maps.vix.com>
-
- 3e. Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email (FREE)
- <http://www.ybecker.net>
-
- 3f. Leah Roberts' LARGE list of anti-spam resources
- <http://www.ao.net/waytosuccess/nospam.html>
-
- 3g. Julian Byrne's Get That Spammer! page
- <http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html>
-
- 3h. FAQs
- FAQs maintained by EmailFAQ
- <http://members.aol.com/emailfaq>
- The Net Abuse FAQ
- <http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html>
- Spam FAQ
- <http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html>
- RFC-1855 (Netiquette)
- <http://www.deepwell.com/netfaq.html>
- Stan Kalisch III's List of news.admin.net-abuse.* Newsgroups' Documents
- HTML-URL: <http://www.crl.com/~sjkiii/news-admin-net-abuse.html>
- Text-URL: <ftp://ftp.crl.com/users/sj/sjkiii/pub/usenet/news-admin-net-abuse.txt>
-
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- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 4. Legal Links
-
- 4a. Lawsuits
- Flowers.com vs. Craig Nowak (forged return address)
- <http://www.zilker.net/nospam/>
- Localhost.com vs. Greentree Mortgage and the Bulk Mailers
- <http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl/lawsuit/>
- Snow v. Doherty, testing applicability of the Telephone
- Consumer's Protection Act (T.C.P.A.)to junk email
- <http://mama.indstate.edu/users/dougie/lawsuit.html>
-
- 4b. Legal Resources
- The John Marshall Law School - Cyberspace Law (EXCELLENT!)
- <http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index.html>
- The CyberLaw Encyclopedia (may not be up to date)
- <http://gahtan.com/techlaw/junkmail.htm>
- Legal Department at AOL
- <http://legal.web.aol.com/>
- State Attorneys General Locator (courtesy PA AG's Office)
- <http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/agsites/>
-
- 4c. Laws that are or may be applicable to U*E
- US "Junk Fax" Law 47 USC 227:
- <http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html>
- Section 17538(d) of the Business and Professions Code of the State
- of California:
- <http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=3Dbpc&group=3D17001-18000&file=3D17530-17539.6>
- Ohio Revised Code Section 2913.04:
- Unauthorized use of computer equipment
- <http://orc.avv.com/title-29/sec-2913/sec-2913.04.htm>
- Nevada bill that deals specifically with the issue of U*E:
- <http://www.leg.state.nev.us./97bills/SB/SB13.HTM>
- Email <wraggio@sen.state.nv.us>
- Texas may already have a law against unsolicited commercial email
- <http://lonestar.texas.net/~tv2go/penalcode.htm>
-
- 4d. Bills pending in US Congress
- Smith Amendment to the junk fax law
- <http://www.cauce.org/amendment.html>
- Murkowski of Alaska's opt-out plan
- <http://www.senate.gov/~murkowski/commercialemail/EmailBillText.html>
- Torricelli of New Jersey's bill
- <http://www.senate.gov/~torricelli/junkbill.html>
-
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-
- Subject: 5. Tools
-
- 5a. procmail and email filtering resources
- SENDMAIL configuration to block unauthorized relaying
- <http://www.sendmail.org>
- Era Eriksson's procmail FAQ and resources site
- <http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/>
- How to make Netscape 2 and 3 filter incoming email
- <http://www.voidstar.com/voidstar/software.html#NSRoute>
- Mailshield (COMMERCIAL) server-based tool - works with a wide variety of email server
- software to help you reject spam, prevent unauthorized mail relaying and
- halt email bombs
- <http://www.mailshield.com/>
- Other sites
- <http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/procmail/>
- <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/>
- <http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq/>
- <http://www.samiam.org/spam/index.html>
- <ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail>
- <http://www.panix.com/e-spam.html>
- <http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html>
- <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/>
-
- Also consult the usenet news group comp.mail.misc
-
- 5b. Configuring your email client to show all headers
- Eudora Light Mac/Widnows, Netscape
- <http://help.mindspring.com/features/emailheaders/extended.htm>
-
- 5c. Deciphering headers
- <http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html>
- <http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html>
- <http://www.rahul.net/falk/mailtrack.html>
-
- 5d. Lists
- Paul Vixie's MAPS RBL (Realtime Blackhole List)
- <http://maps.vix.com/rbl/>
- Internet Blacklist
- <http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/bl>
- MindSpring Spam Filter List
- <http://www.mindspring.com/cgi-bin/spamlist.pl>
- Rahul Dhesi's Block list
- <http://www.rahul.net/dhesi/nojunk.txt>
- Rogues' Lists
- <http://www.vix.com/spam/rogues.html>
- <http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/blacklist.html>
-
- 5e. Hunting/Tracking/Responding
- Sam Spade (FREEWARE) - excellent collection of IP tools for tracking sources,
- testing relays, and verifying DNS information:
- <http://www.blighty.com/spam/spade.html>
- Spam Hater (FREEWARE) - analyzes U*E and suggests reply addresses.
- Works with many email programs:
- <http://www.compulink.co.uk/~net-services/spam/>
- Spam Blaster (COMMERCIAL) - compares incoming messages to UCE blacklist,
- deletes offenders:
- <http://www.gooware.com/software/ISOFT/SB/about.htm>
- Teergrube - hold SMTP connections open indefinitely (FAQ):
- English <http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html>
- Deutsch <http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.html>
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 6. Agencies
-
- 6a. US Postal Service
- The US Postal Inspection service office locator
- <http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/locators/find-is.html>
- Information on chain letters/mail fraud
- <http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm>
- <http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/usc18/mailfr.htm>
-
- 6b. Electronic Software Publishing Corporation
- <http://www.elsop.com/wrc/complain.htm>
- A site maintained by the Electronic Software Publishing Corporation,
- listing many addresses for reporting possible fraud and scams. Here
- is a sample:
- <nfic@internetmci.com>
- Internet Fraud Center - general frauds
- <pyramid@ftc.gov>
- MLM and pyramid scheme stuff - phone card distributorships, etc.
-
- 6c. National Fraud Information Center
- <http://www.fraud.org>
- This is a site run by the National Consumers League, FTC and Association
- of State Attorneys General. The site has tips to avoid fraud, daily
- reports of Internet scams and contact info. NFIC is a National clearing
- house to report scams which they forward to appropriate agencies.
-
- 6d. Federal Trade Commission
- <http://www.ftc.gov>
- The US FTC also takes fraud reports at
- consumerline@ftc.gov
- fraud@ftc.gov
- and reports of UCE at
- uce@ftc.gov
-
- 6e. Securities and Exchange Commission
- enforcement@sec.gov
- The SEC is very particular about how folks solicit to sell shares.
- There is also a snail-mail address:
- John Reed Stark
- Special Counsel for Internet Projects
- Mail Stop 4-5
- 450 Fifth Street N.W.
- Washington, D.C. 20549
-
- 6f. U.S. Consumer Gateway
- <http://www.consumer.gov>
- "Your Link to Federal Consumer Information". A cooperative effort of
- the FTC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Food and Drug Administration,
- Consumer Product Safety Commission and National Highway Transportation Safety
- Administration.
-
- 6g. Pennsylvania Attorney General
- To file a formal complaint about Cyberpromo, or any other Pennsylvania-
- based junk emailer, with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office, use
- the form at
- <http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/contact/index.html>
- As always, print, sign and snail-mail your complaints!
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 7. Abuse Addresses of Major Service Providers
-
- John Levine, the maintainer of abuse addresses at abuse.net, has
- graciously allowed me to eliminate the duplication of effort, and
- simply provide a pointer to his comprehensive, up-to-date list:
- <http://www.abuse.net/cgi-bin/list-abuse-addresses>
-
- Below are "special cases" for AOL members:
- AOL (members)
- abuse
- postmaster
- tosspam
- To report AOL members' violations (send to one only)
- tosemail1
- tosemail2
- tosemail3
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 8. AUPs and Terms of Service
-
- Concentric Networks
- <http://www.concentric.net/support/tos/index.html>
- Digex Policy on System Abuse
- <http://www.access.digex.net/~policy/digex-aup.html>
- MindSpring
- <http://www.mindspring.com/aboutms/policy.html>
- New Age Consulting Services, Inc.
- <http://www.nacs.net/nacs-aup.html>
- PSI
- <http://www.psi.net/csg/netabuse.html>
- <http://www.psi.net/news/pr/97/nospam.html>
- Sprint
- <http://www.sprintbiz.com/data1/ip/policy.html>
- SpryNet/Interserv
- <http://www.sprynet.com/acceptableuse.html>
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 9. Responsible online marketing
-
- Promoting Your Not-for-Profit Organization Online
- <http://www.coyotecom.com/promote.html>
- Marketing Your Organization's Web Site
- <http://www.coyotecom.com/webdevo/webmrkt.html>
- Ten Tips for New Online Businesses
- <http://www.cerf.net/cerfnet/cerfnet_news/tips.html>
- FAQ: Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It"
- <http://www.danger.com/advo.html>
- <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/usenet
- /advertising>
- Promote Responsible Net Commerce
- <http://spam.abuse.net/spam/dweebs.html>
-
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-
- Subject: 10. Netiquette
-
- Outreach Netiquette -- the Dos and Don'ts of Outreach
- <http://www.impactonline.org/internet/outnet.html>
- A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community
- <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/usenet
- /primer/part1>
- Rules for Posting to Usenet
- <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/usenet
- /posting-rules/>
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: 11. Etcetera
-
- Postage-Due marketing
- <http://www.internet.com:2010/marketing/postage.html>
- Netscape 2.0 Javascript bug that allows addresses to be plucked
- <http://ng.netgate.net/~barry/badJavaSc.html>
- SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Units, Mobile (SPUTUM)
- <http://www.sputum.com/>
- Telecommunications Users Group, Inc. - their stand on UBE
- <http://www.eskimo.com/~brucem/tug.htm>
-
- Infamous U*E domains and individuals
- Earthstar
- <http://www.russ-smith.com/earthstar.htm>
- CyberPromo
- <http://www.mindspring.com/~mdpas/promo/pe_count.html>
- <http://www.tigerden.com/junkmail/> (latest on Cyberpromo vs. Compuserve)
- Krazy Kev
- <http://www.iac.co.jp/~issho/stop-spam.html>
-
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- Subject: End of Email Abuse Resource List
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