Spam Background Info
Help and Reference
| This is where to start if you are a beginner. All of the common questions are either answered from direct links from this page, or are contained in comprehensive sites linked from there. | |
| Spam often comes hand-in-hand with a scam; most spammers have few ethics, which is hardly an original statement. Some scams have taken a new lease of life from spam, such as the ubiquitous '419' scam. If you don't know what that is, you've come to the right place. | |
| Law makers have struggled for years to frame a workable spam law, and legal actions have been succesfully brought against major spammers. Spam attracts commercial interests, so disputes over patents and trademarks have become more common. | |
| Publications about all aspects of the spam problem. | |
| Spam-related Internet Standards. | |
| Statistics on spam. |
Keep up to Date
| Spam is now firmly in the consciousness of the media. Some of the same old stories keep coming around, as though a journalist is the first to have been emailed by the widow of a Nigerian politician, but some sources keep their ear to the ground and provide interesting reading. | |
| If you want to hear from and talk to the people at the front line of the fight against spam, this can be the place to go. Of course, you also end of hearing from the usual collection of kooks and wanabees that you get on any topic, but there you go. Take it all with a pinch of salt (and use your killfile) and you'll survive. | |
| There's barely a month when someone isn't holding a meeting in the hope of finally getting a grip on the spam problem. These provide opportunities for law-makers, software developers, lawyers, system administrators and even spammers to get in the same room and discuss spam. | |
| A number of courses are available to teach correct use of spam filters. | |
| Do you want to be employed in an anti-spam job? Try looking here. |
Who's Who?
| These are the people who spam, or support spam. | |
| Several organized groups of people are opposed to spam, as industry groups, user groups, or lobbying organizations. |
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