Junk e-mail and
spam
(How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, Spam, and
Telemarketers)
"The spam
wars are about rendering email useless for unsolicited
advertising
before unsolicited advertising renders email useless for
communication."
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Overview
Junk e-mail and spam are both terms for advertising and e-mail
sent to you which you did not ask for and which you do not
want. See
Junk Email,
The Email Abuse FAQ, and
Spam FAQ for more detailed information. Interesting
articles are presented in
Salon.com. Also see the informative
How do spammers get people's email addresses? and the
nicely-done
Death to Spam page. The article
Why Am I Getting All This Spam? by the Center for
Democracy & Technology contains useful information and the
results of several experiments. The Wired article
Hotmail: A Spammer's Paradise?" describes how
dictionary attacks are used by spammers to guess at email
addresses.
Note that spam is a more generic term that includes broadcast
posting to newsgroups as well as individuals. Here's a
spam glossary and another
spam glossary. The
Netizen's Guide to Spam, Abuse, and Internet Advertising
provides solid information on the topic. Also check out
The Net Abuse FAQ for the official definition of SPAM and
lots of good information about how to deal with it. Also see
the net-abuse/spam FAQ at
www.faqs.org/ for net-abuse newsgroups, providing lots of
good info and plenty of detail. (Note that the old
alt.current-events.net-abuse newsgroup has been superseded by
the news.admin.net-abuse.* hierarchy (see
newsgroup information).
Spam is, unfortunately, an abuse of the internet that you -
the end user - ultimately pay for. If you think spam costs
nothing, think again! In 1997, America Online estimated that
between 5% and 30% of its email server resources were
exclusively dedicated to handling spam. Between $2-3 of your
monthly internet charges go to handling spam, according to the
1998 Washington State Commercial Electronic Messages Select
Task Force
report. 7% of Internet users who switch ISPs do so because
of spam. This equates to a loss of more then $250,000 per
month for an ISP with one million subscribers. Also see the
essays
The Insidious Evil of Spam and
The Spam Solutions.
See
spamming ethics research from North Carolina State
University.
Spam costs you and your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Here
are the
True Costs of Spam, as calculated by actual victims of
spam. In a survey of ISP's by CIX (Commercial Internet
eXchange Association):
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94% reported that spam irritates their subscribers.
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80% reported that UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail)
slows system performance.
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76% stated that it increases operating costs.
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34% said it creates system outages.
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59% reported daily or more frequent performance impact.
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28% reported weekly performance impact.
Spam can cause a system outages: excess mail can clog up the
mail servers, preventing non-spam e-mail from getting through.
America Online testified to the Federal Trade Commission that
one-third of their capacity was used to carry spam. Netcom
reported that their cost was one million dollars per year.
Brightline estimated a cost of $225 million, based on 5
seconds to hit the Delete key, with an average of 200 spam
messages per person per year (a very low estimate). An
estimated 25 million spam messages are sent each day.
"Spammers are the Internet's undead. Preying upon the
innocent and naive, these bandwidth-sucking vampires hope to
be network masters hiding in the shadows in cowardice and
shame, only to fade to dust when burned by the light of day."
- Bill McCarthy,
Boardwatch, June 2000
Take the
Boulder Pledge: "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything
offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message.
Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or
virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my
contribution to the survival of the online community."
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Who to Complain to?
Never reply to spam, even if it is to send a "remove"
request. Most spammers ignore such responses, or worse, add
you to their list of validated email addresses that they sell.
Instead, you must complain to ISPs that originate and forward
the spam. The easiest way to report spam is to use the
automatic reporting features of
SpamCop, described
below. Use SpamCop and help reduce the volume of spam!
Here are
simple instructions on how to report spammers. Also see
Where to Complain About Frauds & Scams.
Spam Hater software by Net Services handles responses to
spam automatically. You can download their software for free
(test it by sending spam to yourself). The
Network Abuse Clearinghouse remails reports of spam abuse
for you.
If you know the spam came from an individual, you can tell the
spammer that you charge for use of your facilities to transmit
and store unsolicited junk email, and insist for their postal
address so that you can send the bill. You may e-mail this
standard legal response which references
US Code Title 47, Section 227(b)(1)(C), which can be
interpreted to mean that unwanted spam is illegal. (Thanks to
D. Larson; this response has been very effective before the
advent of more organized commercial spammers). Copy the
message to:
abuse@(their address)
postmaster@(their address)
root@(their address)
admin@(their address)
If their address includes a common domain name like "aol.com",
send the message to the appropriate party:
America Online: abuse@aol.com, and send complaints to
tosemail1@aol.com, then to tosemail2@aol.com,
where tos refers to "terms of service".
Compuserve: postmaster@compuserve.com
or ecgintern@csi.compuserve.com
Prodigy: mailadm@prodigy.com
or postmaster@prodigy.com
ATand T WorldNet: abuse@worldnet.att.net
Earthlink: spam@earthlink.net
or abuse@earthlink.net
Netcom: abuse@netcom.com
Pipeline: abuse@pipeline.com
GNN: GNNadvisor@gnn.com
Sprynet: srb@spry.com
Note: AOL has implemented a preferred mail option (keyword =
PREFERREDMAIL) to protect user's accounts from receiving email
sent by certain junk email sites. The spammer list is updated
regularly.
Some people also send a copy of their complaint to the
following, just to make them aware of the significance of the
problem:
president@whitehouse.gov
ZOEGRAM@lofgren.house.gov
Vice.president@whitehouse.gov
Senator@your senator.senate.gov
Complain directly to the postmasters of these spammers and
insist that they take disciplinary action. If their business
name matches their domain name, complain to the postmaster at
the next link up. Be sure to include the complete original
spam including all header information. Simply copy the
original spam and its header information after the
legal notice. Also remove any residual CCs and BCCs in your
e-mail header - you don't want to inadvertently propagate the
spam!
Next post a copy of the spam, with headers, subject line, and
body intact to the following Usenet newsgroup:
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings
First check the newsgroup to ensure no one else has posted the
spam - no need to clutter up the newsgroup with multiple
postings. Be sure you post the article as a new post, not as a
"reply" to the spam posting - this way you won't perpetuate
the spam. This newsgroup is robomoderated, and is used to
identify new spam. After spam is posted to this newsgroup, it
will then be cancelled. In your posting to signtings, add the
following lines to your header:
Followup-to: news.admin.net-abuse.email (for e-mail spam you received)
or
Followup-to: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet (for spam posted to newsgroups)
Abuse-spotted-in: (the first group where the spam was spotted)
Abuse-Subject: (subject line from the spam)
Type-of-abuse: (EMP, ECP, binary, forgery, etc. Common terms follow:)
ECP Excessive Crossposting
EMP Excessive Mass Posting
MMF Make Money Fast
OTCP Off-Topic Commercial Post
OTP Off-Topic Post
UCP Unsolicited Commercial Post
Description: (description and/or comments)
If your email complaints to spammers' postmasters bounce back
to you, you can do a traceroute - see the
combat sites. (Windows 98 users can use c:\windows\tracert.exe).
Using traceroute, you can sort out the path taken to get from
your ISP to a spammer's ISP. To precisely pinpoint a spammer's
uplink, run traceroute from several different servers (ISPs).
For more information, see the next section on
Cracking Forged Headers.
You may find it most effective to complain to the spammer's
ISP. However, if the spammer is running from a dedicated spam
site (such as
Cyberpromo), you might have better luck complaining to
their upstream provider. Don't complain further up the chain,
though, until you've exhausted the lower levels. It's
considered rude, and just might get your postmaster
into legitimate trouble.
Don't mail-bomb, as periodically suggested by persons trying
to get rid of junk email. A mail-bomb is where you would
bombard the sender with a return of their spam and a note
insisting they delete you from their distribution list - and
then keep resending your email.
Keep in mind that your ISP (and probably the offending
party's) certainly will not approve of either of these
practices (it very well can get you cancelled). What actually
ends up happening is that your ISP (who is on your side) gets
trashed with all of the e-mail traffic, as well the ISP of the
offending party - and both ISPs are probably innocent. In
addition, chances are that the spammer forged their "path" and
"from" headers, so the mail-bomb probably won't reach them.
Also, check out the discussion on news.admin.net-abuse.email.
They discuss email spams, and practice ways of eliminating
these spammers' accounts.
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Cracking Forged Headers
For further information on cracking forged headers, see
SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Unit (Mobile). Then
browse on to a few of the following sites:
Spam Patrol site and
Figuring Out Fake E-mail and Posts. MultiTrace has an
excellent explanation of
traceroute, along with a traceroute and enhanced
whois server.
Check out Julian Byrne's
Get That Spammer page, which discusses what an ISP can do,
and contains a wealth of information on how you can dissect
e-mail addresses, and tools you can use against spam.
VisualWare has a good section on cracking spam email
headers.
If you need to use these facilities, your followup e-mail
should also mention that the spammer hacked the email headers
to avoid retribution, which indicates knowledge of guilt,
which means that the postmaster will often cancel the account
immediately instead of waiting for further violations. In
addition, many postmasters will not notify you directly of
their actions, but will instead post summaries to
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins.
If the spammer's address is an independent address like "pwrnet.com",
you can determine responsible parties by using
whois
- a standard UNIX utility. Or, simply go to
www.betterwhois.com for a web-based domain lookup. Also,
Whois Source offers some industrial strength lookup
facilities. Whois, Finger, and additional network utilities
are also available for Windows. One good package is:
NetScanTools TM Shareware Version
Northwest Performance Software
PO Box 148
Maple Valley, WA 98038-0148, USA
(Check shareware sites such as Strouds and Tucows)
Here's an example of a whois command:
whois pwrnet.com
PowerNet (PWRNET-DOM)
3010 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1435, Dallas, TX 75234, USA
Domain Name: PWRNET.COM
Administrative Contact:
Booth, Paul D. (PB204) paul@PWRNET.COM (214) 488-8295
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Shapiro, Joel (JS3319) joel@PWRNET.COM (214) 488-8295
Billing Contact:
La Mar, Steve (SL978) steve@PWRNET.COM (214) 488-8295
Other
whois servers include:
Once you determine the appropriate people to contact at the
spammer's site, copy each of them with your complaint
(including for example, the legal statement and billing
statement noted above). If you need additional help, contact
your system administrator about specific email abuse.
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Spam Combat
It is
recommended that you switch to an ISP that uses one or all of
the anti-spam databases (RBL, RSS, DUL, Spamcop, etc.) About
40% of the internet is using these services, with good
success.
The following is a list of spam-fighting tools and services.
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Cloud Mark anti-spam products for home and business.
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Spam Arrest is a tool to eliminate spam.
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SpamCop
will automatically send complaints about spam for you! All
you have to do is establish a userid, then forward your spam
to SpamCop. SpamCop will generate complaints to all
appropriate parties, upstreams, and open email relay ISPs.
Using SpamCop is probably the best thing you can do to help
eliminate spam. Effective and highly recommended!
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Spam Bully anti-spam product.
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Spam Fighter anti-spam product.
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Spam Fire anti-spam product.
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Spam Weed anti-spam product.
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UXN Spam Combat offers traceroute, extended Whois, and
other services - all from one web page!
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Sam Spade also offers a comprehensive set of tools.
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Spamhaus tracks known spammers and support services.
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Spam Whack works essentially like a "bad check"
database, in that users establishing new accounts with
member ISPs are checked against a database of known
spammers.
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Single Fin email and webfiltering product.
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www.betterwhois.com searches all domain name registrars.
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Whois Source offers some industrial strength lookup
facilities.
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VisuzlWare offers VisualRoute (a graphical traceroute)
and EmailTrackerPro products.
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Fraud
Chain letters over the internet as well as via snail mail are
illegal. For more information, see the
US Postal Service page on chain letters. To report fraud
where money is requested, you can send e-mail to
fraud@uspis.gov.
Pyramid schemes multi-level marketing (MLM) scams are illegal.
E-mail the Federal Trade Commission at
uce@ftc.gov. In the UK, contact the
Trading Standards Officer.
The
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now operates a
complaint center where investors can report online scams.
You can send e-mail to
enforcement@sec.gov.
Many junk emails are illegal get rich scams. The
National Fraud Information Center has an email address
where you can report suspected scams. They have an Internet
fraud division, and work closely with the Federal Trade
Commission and State attorney generals. The e-mail address for
general frauds is
fraudinfo@psinet.com.
Also see
Where to Complain About Frauds & Scams.
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E-mail filtering
techniques
The following list contains information on how to filter your
e-mail on Unix, Windows, and other platforms.
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Filtering Mail FAQ.
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Pegasus Mail now contains anti-spam headers. You can now
filter your e-mail based on these headers!
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Pete Beim's
Eudora Spam Filter and autoresponder is easy to use!
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See the
Procmail FAQ.
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Brightmail offers spam-filtered email accounts.
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Despammed.com also offers spam-filtered email accounts.
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Freely Available Information Filtering Systems tells you
how to configure Procmail and other Usenet Newsgroup
filters.
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Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming offers articles and
a Unix script file to filter spam.
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The
Boycott
Internet Spam site provides an
FAQ, lots of info on spam, filtering e-mail, blocking an
ISP, etc., and contains some interesting links.
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Adcomplain is a unix-based system which composes and
mails complaints about inappropriate commercial postings,
chain letters, and e-mail. For example, you can press a
button from within your newsreader, and adcomplain will
automatically mail a complaint to the offender and their
postmaster.
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Filtering Spam (with Eudora) by checking who the message
is addressed to. Also see
Using Eudora's Filters to avoid spam.
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Spamhandling Perl handles your spam.
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Spam filter andi-spam filter.
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Doug Oard's
Information Filtering Resources page can tell you just
about about everything filtering concepts and tools.
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Freely Available Information Filtering Systems tells you
how to configure Procmail and other Usenet Newsgroup
filters.
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MailShell has a free and a fee-based email management
service that prevents junk email.
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Spam News is the daily e-mail magazine about breaking
events pertaining to spam. The site also includes a list of
filters, ISP contact information, and Spam News archives.
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Spam Guard Network is a fee-based filtering service.
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Postini offers a mail filtering product for email
servers.
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Screen4me is a free service that helps you eliminate
junkmail, spam, and telemarketers.
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Sneakemail
is a free service that you can use to generate disposable
email addresses which are aliases of your real email
address, which is kept hidden. You can enter these
Sneakemail addresses into web forms or use them to contact
e-businesses without the risk of your real address being
abused or bought and sold.
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Broadband Antispam is a commercial product to filter
spam.
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GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP is server-based
commercial product.
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Spam Outpost is a commercial product to detect and
eliminate spam.
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Spam Inspector is a commercial product that bounces
email back to spammers as if your mailbox is invalid.
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Bluebottle offers a fee-based service to accept mail
only from known senders.
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SpamAssassin is a Unix-based filtering tool that uses
Vipul's Razor database of spam (commonly know as SpamNet).
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Spamnix is available as a commercial Eudora (Windows)
plugin.
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Cloudmark Spamnet also offers the same SpamNet
technology with Outlook Express under Windows.
Don't support scams and spammers!
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Don't send in money for a product you are not sure of,
or for what might be an anti-spam scam.
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TSW's $15 filter kills junk e-mail on your server.
However, if you buy their filter, you are supporting their
spamming software and list extraction software. Watch out
for wolves in sheep's clothing!
What to Filter - Lists of
Spammers
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Most e-mail spam is generated automatically by software
which eliminates the TO: header field. You might want
to filter e-mail that does not have your e-mail address in
at least one of the header fields TO:, CC:,
BCC:. However, keep in mind that many legitimate
listservers that you subscribe to might also trim the TO:
field.
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Bad mail from is a database of user maintained spam
source addresses.
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Network Abuse Clearinghouse maintains a list of abuse
domains, and can automatically remail messages about spam
you receive.
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Here's a rather old list of domain names used by
Cyberpromo.
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See the
Blacklist of Internet Advertisers.
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Check out
Web-D's list of
spammers!
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Legislation
News
The Can-Spam act was passed in 2003. ("Controlling the Assault
of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003"). Here
is
information and
text of the act. The act covers commercial email, but does
not seem to address non-profit and personal email. Here's how
to
comply with the act. The act is not perfect - from Ed
Foster's
gripe log:
"It's clear that only the Direct Marketing Association,
Microsoft, AOL and a handful of others had any input into the
law, because it's carefully crafted to allow the big marketers
free reign. And the loopholes it provides them will be more
than big enough to provide aid and comfort for the smallest
and sleaziest of spammers as well."
"Not only does the Can-Spam Act take an opt-out approach,
meaning that each spammer can e-mail you until you ask them to
stop, but it allows the spammer to dictate what steps you must
take to get off their list. The recipient must opt-out "in a
manner specified in the message" that can include replying to
an opt-out email address or "other Internet-based mechanism."
The spammer can also force the recipient to opt-out via "a
list or menu from which the recipient may choose the specific
types of commercial electronic mail messages the recipient
wants to receive or does not want to receive from the sender"
just as along as opting out from all e-mail from that sender
is one of the choices."
According to
PC World News Radio on 3/30/98, EarthLink Nails Spamford
for $2 Million. Under a consent decree, Cyber Promotions
agreed to pay EarthLink $2 million, stop sending spammming
EarthLink's 450,000 members. If Wallace or Cyber Promotions
breaks the agreement, Spamford Wallace will be held personally
liable for $1 million.
Elsop's Anti-Spam page also follows current anti-spam
legislation. The
Spam Laws website follows U.S. and international
legislation.
Read the Houston Chronicle
article.
Support CAUCE
 CAUCE
is an organization dedicated to expanding the US "junk fax"
law to cover e-mail spamming.
Join their effort! See their
FAQ and list of recent
news articles. Key points are ONCE, which stand for:
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Opt-in.
No spam. People get info when they ask for it.
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No
censorship. The leading objection to regulation does not
apply.
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Cost
shifting. The principal reason for opposing spam.
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Enforcement.
By recipients, with no intrusion by government.
Several bills have been introduced over the last several years
to deal with spam, by Chris Smith (R-NJ), Senator Murkowski
(R-AK), and Senator Torricelli (D-NJ). Truly effective
legislation must have teeth in it with stiff penalties, be
truly opt-in, and must be enforcable. It must be
written in such a way that does not simply encourage spammers
to shift operations overseas or use innovative approaches to
avoid the penalties. None of the bills introduced to-date have
adequately addressed these issues.
One thing that seems inevitable, though, is that federal
legislation of some sort will be required. Here's an
editorial that sheds a lot of light on the subject. Also
see
discussion on the merits of legislation.
Contact Your
Congresspersons!
Here are e-mail addresses and information for:
Please write and/or e-mail your Senators and Representatives
on this issue! Insist on "opt in" legislation. Be sure to
include your full name and snail mail address on any e-mail
you send, otherwise it will be discarded.
Here are
more details on state and national legislation. Also see
the
Berkeley Technology Law Journal and
John Marshall Law School case summary, which has just
about all the information you need.
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More Information
Read the official internet document
RFC 2635 on spam.
SpamCon Foundation supports measures to reduce the amount
of unsolicited email that crosses private networks.
Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail (FREE).
Find out if your browser makes
information available to sites you visit.
Did you know that
Invisible Web Bugs Track Your Surfing? See the article
Uncover the Mystery of Web Bugs. Here's mbugs more
information on
privacy issues.
Whew.com maintains an informative spam and junkmail
website.
SlashDot.org archives current articles on
spam. You can also search their archives.
Maintain a web page? Add some
spam bait! See why
Robots, Spiders, Crawlers and Wanderers are Highway
Robbers on your web site.
The Internet Mail Consortium has information on
Limiting Unsolicited Bulk Email. Here you can find a link
to information about L-Soft Listserv's spam filter.
You might want to read the books
Removing the Spam: Email Processing and Filtering by Geoff
Mulligan, Addison-Wesley
Bandits on the Information Superhighway by Barrett, and
Web Psychos, Stalkers, and Pranksters: How to Protect Yourself
in Cyberspace by Michael A. Banks, ISBN 1-586-10-137-1.
The December 1996 issue of
Boardwatch Magazine focuses on junk e-mail and spam. Also
see the November 1999 article. For additional informattion on
spamming, also see the section on
newsgroups, and check out the
links section for additional information.
MailExpire lets you set up an auto-expiring email alias.
You choose how long you want alias to last for and during that
time, email is forwarded to your standard email address.
Although they charge for the service,
www.pobox.com claims to be able to filter most spam from
their e-mail accounts.
PaidMail is a service where junkemailers would have to pay
you for you to receive their junkemail.
A philosophical note on exclusion lists, where you add your
name to a list of people who do not want junk mail: it places
the burden of getting off spam lists on the user, whereas the
converse should be true - you should have to explicity request
that you
do
want junk mail. Also keep in mind that someone who maintains
an exclusion list could sell it as a database of validated
addresses (e-mail as well as postal addresses). Sort of what
can, and does, happen with
DMA.
In May of 1997, the
Internet EMail Marketing was formed. As a pro-spam
organization, it offers an opt-out service. This is
unacceptable, for the following reasons:
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The organization is formulated as a consortium of
entities that promote spamming. It is an organization
dedicated towards promoting spam, not alleviating it. Item
(7) of their objectives states "To respond to opponents and
adversaries of the E-Mail Marketing industry". That fairly
well states their purpose.
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Interesting that the organization was formed just before
the FTC hearings on privacy, spam, and the Internet earlier
this month. If spammers can state that they have a voluntary
control mechanism in place, then that precludes the FTC and
Congress from needing to intervene on behalf of consumers.
The last thing spammers want is effective
legislation.
An analogy is the
Direct Marketing Association. It exists for the primary
purpose of preventing legislation from being enacted to
restrict junk snailmail. By creating their Mail Preference
Service (where you write to supposedly get off mailing
lists), the DMA preempted Congress from enacting
legislation. Yet use of Mail Preference Service exclusion
lists is completely voluntary on the part of marketers. In
actuality, it is hardly used because it costs the marketer
more to merge the lists.
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Similarly, the EMail Marketing Council is offering an
"opt out" system, whereby you have to say you don't want
spam. This is unacceptable. An "opt in" system is the only
viable solution, meaning you have to ask for spam to receive
it.
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Consider that the cost to a spammer is trivial to e-mail
10,000 addresses. Yet the cost to merge exclusion lists is
significant in proportion. It is doubtful that exclusion
lists would be used by most spammers, and certainly not by
small outfits. In fact, it would be of greater value to
add the exclusion list addresses to the spam list, since
those are working, validated, addresses. What spammers are
looking for is additional hits per spam broadcast. Each
incremental hit means more revenue.
The first step of a viable solution is to enact "opt in"
legislation like that proposed by Rep. Chris Smith, discussed
above (with substantially higher fines).
Anti-spam listserv mailing
lists
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SPAM-L
See the
SPAM-L FAQ, which contains good information about
tracking and handling spam.
To subscribe, send mail to: listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com
Place the following in the message body:
Subscribe spam-l your name
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Spam-Ad
To subscribe, send mail to to: listserv@internet.com
Place the following in the message body:
Subscribe spam-ad your name
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Spam-list
To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@mailer.psc.edu
Place the following in the body of the message:
Subscribe spam-list your email address
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Myths, Hoaxes, Chain
Letters, and Viruses
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ISP Actions
Things your ISP can do to fight spam:
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Have an Acceptable Use Practices (AUP contract).
If you breach contract, you agree to pay $50 per complaint
and cleanup costs per bounce received. Cancellation of
spammers' accounts should be as fast as possible.
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RBL, DUL, and RSS are databases supported by the
MAPS Mail Abuse Prevention System (it's also "spam"
spelled backwards). The RBL list blocks traffic to 40% of
the Internet. The RBL list is a list of spammers' IP
addresses.
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RSS is the Relay Spam Stopper. 17% of mail
servers are insecure. RSS is a verified open server list.
Open servers are insecure and can be "hijacked" by spammers.
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MAPS sends email to postmaster@badserver saying
that mail is being blocked and how to fix the problem. MAPS
checks the RSS and RBL lists.
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RSS is more technical because they can test for
open email relay.
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DUL is the DialUp List. This is a list of IP
addresses, provided by ISPs, that will never send valid
e-mail. Spammers often forge email to use these IP
addresses.
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ORBS works like the RSS relay detector but is
more agressive. ORBS lists open relay servers even if spam
hasn't yet been sent through them. ISP's may consider this
abuse of their network and block ORBS testing. If an ISP
block ORBS, it will nevertheless be listed by ORBS as a
suspected spammer.
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Spam Products
Now you can get official spam t-shirts from
Hormel. Nice that they have a sense of humor regarding use
of their product name.
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