Spam

List for developers of tools to prevent spam.

United States, European Union, and other countries' laws and pending legislation regarding unsolicited commercial email.

Spam-related mailing list. Includes subscription information, and FAQ.

Article about how businesses can advertise without spamming.

This report discusses the costs of spam.

Managed enterprise quality spam and virus filtering service.

Fully-managed antispam solution and antivirus service.

Managed spam service offering anti-spam and anti-virus filtering technologies.

Open-source automatic mail classification tool using Bayesian statistical methods.

Managed service which filters spam, viruses and malware. Supports POP, IMAP and SMTP.

Email management solution that provides full control over security and usage of corporate email systems.

Dutch company offering managed hosted or dedicated virus and spam filtering, works through mx redirection. Free 30-day trial is offered.

Providing analysis, information, and consulting on industry issues relating to public policies and processes regarding spam, email, and the Internet.

Association seeks to bring the messaging industry together to fight messaging abuse such as messaging spam, virus attacks, and denial-of-service attacks.

Step by step explanation with screenshots of how to set filters.

An automated page generator that create long lists of fake email addresses to poison the spammer's database.

Converts HTML code to hide email address from spam bots.

How to find a spammer and how to respond to spam.

A realtime URI blacklist served via DNS to identify unsolicited bulk and commercial messages based on the links within the e-mails. Distributed under the Apache open source license.

Bug-tracking system for the SpamAssassin mail filtering project.

The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com]

Complaints about unsolicited commercial email have prompted an industry coalition to come up with standards designed to quell consumer concerns and keep regulators at bay. [CNET.com]

Spam filters used by some popular Internet email providers weed out only a fraction of the junk they're supposed to but almost never bounce legitimate messages, according to a new study. [CNET.com]

Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails, and then getting them the messages that are most likely to make them buy, is a thriving industry of its own. [E-Commerce Times]

In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? [CNET.com]

On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence the future of direct marketing over the Internet.

Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers, despite the growing number of junk e-mails promoting get-rich-quick scams or pornographic websites, says a report.