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Archive-name: net-abuse-faq/resource-list
Posting-frequency: weekly
Last-modified: June 25, 1998
Version: 1.02
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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
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.
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>
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>
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/
/advertising>
Promote Responsible Net Commerce
<http://spam.abuse.net/spam/dweebs.html>
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/
/primer/part1>
Rules for Posting to Usenet
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/
/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>
Subject: End of Email Abuse Resource List
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