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Archive-name: net-abuse-faq/resource-list
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Last-modified: June 25, 1998
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URL: http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/resource-list.html
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Copyright: (c) 1996-1998 WD Baseley
Maintainer: [email protected] (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.

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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


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Subject: 2. Basics

2a. Who is responsible for this list?

 WD Baseley. Use [email protected] 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.


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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>


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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 <[email protected]>
 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>


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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>

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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:
   <[email protected]>
     Internet Fraud Center - general frauds
   <[email protected]>
     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
       [email protected]
       [email protected]
     and reports of UCE at
       [email protected]

6e. Securities and Exchange Commission
   [email protected]
   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!


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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

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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>


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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/usenet
    /advertising>
 Promote Responsible Net Commerce
   <http://spam.abuse.net/spam/dweebs.html>


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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/usenet
    /primer/part1>
 Rules for Posting to Usenet
   <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/usenet
    /posting-rules/>


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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>

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Subject: End of Email Abuse Resource List

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