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Tools

Server Level

Sophos Pure Message
http://www.sophos.com/
Sophos is a vendor of tools for "integrated threat management" for business customers. I often see the company mentioned in articles on computer threats like spam, viruses, and spyware.

SpamAssassin
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
The Apache SpamAssassin Project is an open source spam filter, often used at the server level by ISPs and businesses.

User Level

SpamCop Home
http://www.spamcop.net/
Describes itself as "the premier service for reporting spam." It is a powerful tool and in the vanguard fighting spam.

SneakEmail.Com
http://www.sneakemail.com/
Service allows you to create temporary email addresses for online registrations, etc.

SpamBouncer
http://www.spambouncer.org/
Unix spam filter that works with procmail

Articles

Handling Spam: A Review of Options
http://homepage.mac.com/corrp/macsupt/spam/spamoptions.html

TechnoMom's Tips on Handling Spam (Start here!)
http://www.technomom.com/cynthia/antispam/index.html

Legal Effort to Recover Spam Costs [TidBITs]
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06458

Tutorials

Procmail: Order from Chaos with Procmail
http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/procmail_1200.html

Perl: "My Life With Spam" Mark Jason-Dominus articles
http://perl.plover.com/lp/Spam.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/02/spamfilter.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/03/spam3.html

Perl: "Filtering Mail with Mail::Audit and News::Gateway", by Simon Cozens (Perl tutorial)
http://www.sysadminmag.com/tpj/issues/vol5_2/

Apache: "Save Your Site From Spambots"
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/08/champeon/

Books

Stopping Spam: Stamping Out Unwanted Email and News Postings
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spam/

The Procmail Companion by Martin McCarthy
http://procmail.non-prophet.org/

Organizations

SpamCon Foundation
http://www.spamcon.org/index.shtml

Junkbusters Links to Other Resources
http://www.junkbusters.com/links.html

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