Bill Mattocks Spam Tutorial
Back around September/October 1997, Bill Mattocks presented a four-part
tutorial in "spam-fighting". As he generously gave permission to publish
it elsewhere (yay Bill!), I took the posts, reformatted them a bit, added
some colour with HTML, and voila. This was mainly done as an adjunct to a
local lunch talk given to NRAO and UVa/Astronomy staff, but it's here for
the community at large now. So if you got some unsolicited commercial or
bulk e-mail that you don't want, and want to find out how to make your
displeasure known to the recipient, read on...
- Part 1: (for newbies)
- Part 2: (the many uses of
DejaNews
- Part 3: (the whois tool)
- Part 4: (a case study: spammer
unmasked)
Just bear in mind that a lot has happened since then (AGIS dumps
Cyberpromo, ACSI seems to jump in to take the place of AGIS as a spam NSP,
rumours of a "spambone" that seems more vapourware than anything, and so
on). The story continues...