Directory of Preventing Resources

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Sites in this category give information about preventing an e-mail address from being spammed.

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Resources in This Category

• Agent Spam

  http://www.agentspam.com/
  Commercial spam / virus filtering services for corporations and ISP's.

• Anti-Spam tips and Resources for Webmasters

  http://www.altruists.org/projects/ga/free_services/as/
  Tips to publish email addresses on the web more safely. Includes a text-to-image converter and javascript encoders.

• Anti-Spam | Stop Spam Bots

  http://www.safeemail.org/
  Converts HTML code to hide email address from spam bots.

• Email address encoder

  http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html
  Transforms ascii email addresses into their equivalent decimal entity through the use of Character Entities.

• Email Address Encoder

  http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/safemailto/
  Offers simple and user challenge JavaScript based email encoder to prevent email harvesting.

• How Do Spammers Get Email Addresses?

  http://www.newcreations.net/webmaster/spam.html
  Twelve ways spammers obtain email address. Includes links to websites explaining how to trace spammers down.

• How do spammers harvest email addresses?

  http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html
  Several methods are described.

• How to Block E-mail Relaying

  http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/EmailRelaying/
  What to do when your computer is used to relay spam.

• How to Stop Messenger Spam

  http://www.re-quest.net/computers/messenger-spam/index.htm
  Explains how to stop web pop-up spam advertising in Windows Messenger.

• OptOutByDomain.com

  http://www.optoutbydomain.com/
  Universal opt-out by domain list; created as a "convenient opt-out" measure per the CAN-SPAM act.

• Outlook Express Tutorial

  http://www.webterrace.com/outlook/filter.htm
  Step by step explanation with screenshots of how to set filters.

• Paul Graham: Antispam

  http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
  An intensive study essentially discussing spam-filtering techniques.

• Personal Email Networks: An Effective Anti-Spam Tool

  http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402143
  An automated graph theoretic method for identifying individual users' trusted networks of friends in cyberspace. [PDF/PostScript]

• PHP Spam Poison (phpwpoison)

  http://www.mariovaldez.net/software/phpwpoison/
  An automated page generator that create long lists of fake email addresses to poison the spammer's database.

• SEC Suspends Trading of 35 Companies Touted in Spam Email Campaigns

  http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-34.htm
  Press release from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, explaining their recent actions to help curb stock tout spam.

• Some Simple and Practical Means to Help Avoid Spam

  http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/spam.html
  Offers a few simple suggestions.

• Spambot Beware

  http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/
  How to avoid, detect and harass spambots. Spambots are programs that extract email addresses from web pages, which are then used as targets for spam.

• SpamMotel

  http://www.spammotel.com/
  Offering anti-spam program and disposable email addresses.

• Sugarplum

  http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/
  Generates fake data to give to e-mail harvesting robots.

• unspam

  http://www.unspam.com/
  A consulting company for businesses and governments promoting do-not-email registries. Includes spam news and articles.

• Wikipedia - CAPTCHA

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
  Explains how captcha features can keep spammers from signing up for certain accounts online, such as email or weblogs. Explains how the system can be circumvented as well.

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