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Everything About Spam And More

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

konsept writes: "a quick overview of the problem of unwanted, unsolicited e-mail, a growing threat to the usefulness of the Internet. In most cases this will appear as unwanted commercial e-mail - junk e-mail advertising. In a few cases, users of the Net are unfortunate enough to receive unsolicited religious, racial or sexual messages, a somewhat more serious matter." Somewhat of an entry level piece, but a lot of great advice and coverage of the major relevant legislation on the subject.

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  1. Slashdot feature request by Howie · · Score: 5

    Rob/VA/Whoever: Can't you have some sort of macro set up so that when you post the weekly Spam/Napster/Microsoft story, it automatically posts all the standard replies?

    It would save everybody discussing whether my house is like your mailserver, or your gun rack, and whether musicians make money again and again. I expect with the geek-minutes saved in not posting the same long rants over and over, it would be possible to have another really really good X IRC client (with skins, perhaps), or another clock [ae]pplet.

    --
    "don't fall into the fallacy of believing that Perl can solve social problems. Maybe Perl 6 can, but that's a ways off"
  2. Good anti-spam resources by beebware · · Score: 5
    If you hate spam, try visiting spam.abuse.net for help/advice, the alt.spam FAQ for advice on filtering/tracing spam - and many more resources.

    I've also got a collection of reviews about spam filters, Procmail filtering advice, and Windows anti-spam software.


    Richy C.