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Abuse.net: Hvar det postmaster@whatever.whoever? eller abuse? Abboner på abuse.net forwarding tjenesten. "She knows, so you needn't." Se på det andre også, spesielt Boycott Internet Spam
alt.spam FAQ en français
Anti-Spam Campaign: New Layout, Classic: New locations for Leah Roberts' (DfrntDrums) exhaustively comprehensive collection. Everything you wanted to know about U*E. Learn how to trace it, how to report it, why it's bad, and have a laugh as well. Executive Summary: start here (original) or here (reformatted).
Email abuse FAQ - from AOL
How do spammers harvest email addresses?: An excellent listing and description of various techniques used in address gathering - by Uri Raz
How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, Spam, and Telemarketers
Marek Jedlinski's site - A very good collection of links
The Multi-lingual Spam Notifications Project - English templates
The Netizen's Guide to Spam, Abuse, and Internet Advertising
Open Relay Notifications - in several languages
Pagina Antispam in italiano: Leonardo Collinelli's "Small guide to self-defence from more common forms of net abuse"
Sam Spade, Spam hunter: Lots of web tools for tracking down spammers, including the The ACME address digger. Brought to you as a public service by Blighty Design.
Spam Address FAQ: How spammers obtain people's mail addresses so they can spam them, and what you can do to stop that from happening.
Spamcop: A Web-based application for parsing headers and identifying reporting addresses.
Stop Spam FAQ: Abused by e-mail advertising? Here are legitimate and legal ways of doing something about it!
UXN Spam Combat: A spam tracing site with powerful online tools, now used by roughly 1000 people each day to track and terminate spammers.

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Ethical E.Marketing

BadAds - Email: A consumer's reference for what to do about unwelcome email advertising
Business View of Spam: How to conduct an advertising campaign on the Internet without abuse
Conseils et Information sur l'économie de l'e-mail: French-language site offering advice on permission-based email marketing
e-Revolution Issues: Unsolicited Commercial Email: Promoting awareness of the problem of UCE as part of the Electronic Commerce initiative of the European Commission's Information Society Promotion Office
Ethical Marketing=Successful Marketing: Some references may be dated, but the basic advice remains sound.
Tasty spam?: A discussion of permission-based email marketing strategies
Why Unsolicited Bulk E-mail is Bad Business: Linda Formichelli explodes several myths about UBE and gives pointers to ethical and profitable alternatives

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Campaigning and Advocacy

CAUCE: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. Set up in the USA, this is the parent organisation of EuroCAUCE.
CAUBE.AU: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia. Our sister organisation down under.
CAUCE India: The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, India. Dedicated to stopping spam in India before it develops into a crisis.
@SPAM Brasil: Movimento Brasileiro de Combate ao Spam
Antispam: Campaign and information in Czech about spamming in the Czech Republic and abroad.
ANTISPAM.RU: Antispam Project in Russia. An initiative of Zenon N.S.P. to gather and present information in Russian concerning spam and the struggle against it in Russia and abroad.
AUI: Spanish Association of Internet Users
e-patrol: Anti-spam initiative of the e-Consumers Club of Sofia (Bulgaria)
FABEL: Foreningen for Ansvarlig Brug af EmaiL - Danish Association for the Responsible Use of Email
F.R.E.E.: Forum for Responsible and Ethical Email
NetMag AntiSpam CENTRAL: Information in Czech about spamming and what to do about it.
Outlaw Junk E-mail Now!
Stop Unsolicited Mass E-Mail Advertisements!
Turkish Anti-Spam Organisation
YASI: Yugoslav Anti-Spam Initiative

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Policy Documents

Legislative proposals for a new Regulatory Framework for electronic communications: Including COM(2000) 385 Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
Legal Framework for the development of Electronic Commerce: A collection of documents relating to the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DIRECTIVE on certain legal aspects of electronic commerce in the internal market; [including the final Directive 2000/31/EC]
Directive 97/7/EC: of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the Protection of Consumers in respect of Distance Contracts
DIRECTIVE 97/66/EC: OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 December 1997 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector
Directive 95/46/EC: of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data; Implementation in EU Member States
WP28: Opinion 1/2000 of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: on certain data protection aspects of electronic commerce - see index for copies of Working Party documents in other languages
WP36: Opinion 7/2000 of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: On the European Commission Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector - see index for copies of Working Party documents in other languages
WP37: Working Document of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party: Privacy on the Internet - An integrated EU Approach to On-line Data Protection - see index for copies of Working Party documents in other languages
Basic Mailing List Management Principles for Preventing Abuse: From MAPS. (This gives pointers on how mailing lists should be run. Anything else is just messing about.)
Electronic Mailing and Data Protection: Report of the (French) National Data Processing and Liberties Commission
Financial Services:: amended proposal for a Directive on distance marketing
Internet Draft: How to Advertise Responsibly Using the Internet or -
how NOT to $$$$$ MAKE ENEMIES FAST! $$$$$
JANET Acceptable Use Policy: JANET is the Joint Academic NETwork in the UK
LINX Best Current Practice for combating Unsolicited Bulk Email: from the London Internet Exchange
MessageMedia's Resource Centre: A collection of White Papers, Case Studies, and Essays on Permission Marketing. Be sure to have a look at Sometimes the Messenger Should be Shot: Building a Spam-free E-mail Marketing Program
Le Publipostage Électronique et la Protection des Données Personnelles: Rapport de la Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés
Report on e-Commerce: the Policy Requirements: From the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
RFC 2505: Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
RFC 2635: DON'T SPEW, A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings
RIPE 206: Good Practice for combating Unsolicited Bulk Email; The LINX Best Current Practice is now incorporated in a RIPE document.
Standards for Net Use (in Russian): from the (Russian) Open Forum of Internet Service Providers
Technical and Legal Approaches to Unsolicited Electronic Mail: by David E. Sorkin, Assistant Professor of Law, Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, The John Marshall Law School (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Unsolicited Commercial Communication and Data Protection: a study prepared for the Internal Market Directorate General of the European Commission

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Maintenance of Network Infrastructure

EuroISPA: Pan-European association of Internet Services Providers' associations in EU countries
London Internet Exchange: ISP Peering in UK, exchanging news and views as well as IP packets.
Mail Abuse Protection System (MAPS): Education (Transport Security Initiative) and Enforcement (Realtime Blackhole List)
MAPS Relay Spam Stopper: (Formerly RRSS) - listing of open servers used to relay UBE. Differs from ORBS in that only those servers already used by spammers are listed.
ORBS: Open Relay Behaviour-modification System, is a database for tracking SMTP servers that permit third-party relay. These servers permit spammers to connect to them from anywhere in the world, usually from a modem connection, and then forward the spam to its intended victims.
Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE): European Network and Top Level Domain coordination. Including Anti-Spam Working Group.
RRSS: Radparker Relay Spam Stopper - now MAPS Relay Spam Stopper.
The Spamhaus Project: List of known Spam Support Services, now including ROKSO, the Register of Known Spam Operations
spamsites.org: List of sites offering software or services associated with sending Unsolicited Bulk Email

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Newsgroups

news:comp.org.cauce: A robomoderated forum for discussing matters pertaining to the Coalition(s) against Unsolicited Commercial or Broadcast/Bulk Email
news:de.admin.net-abuse.mail: German-language forum for discussing email abuse in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
news:dk.admin.netmisbrug: Danish net.abuse newsgroup
news:news.admin.net-abuse.policy: Discussion of how to combat spam and other net.abuse
news:news.admin.net-abuse.sightings: Post spams here
news:news.admin.net-abuse.usenet: Discuss Usenet spams, otherwise known as ECP/EMP
news:news.admin.net-abuse.email: Discuss E-mail spams (UBE or UCE)
news:news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins: Announcements of spams cancelled and spammers bounced
news:news.admin.net-abuse.misc: Anything else about abuse of the Internet
news:sfnet.viestinta.roskapostit: Finnish net.abuse group

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