Stopping e-mail abuse

E-mail has become the subject of much abuse, in the form of both spamming and E-mail worm programs. Both of these flood the in-boxes of E-mail users with junk E-mails, wasting their time and money, and often carrying offensive, fraudulent, or damaging content. This links help in the efforts to stop E-mail abuse and ensure that E-mail continues to be usable in the face of these threats.

Links

• BlackList checker Check if the domain is blacklisted by Open Relay DataBase (ORDB) or Distributed Sender Blackhole List (DSBL).
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
• Spamfo.co.uk Covers the latest news on junk email, scams, fraud, legal aspects and reviews of software and services out there to help you reduce the ‘spam’.
• California lawyer who sues spammers
• Address Munging FAQ: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address
• Challenge/Response at the SMTP Level: It may be possible to implement a challenge/response SPAM protection system using custom SMTP Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) that include an HTML confirmation hyperlink.
• Countering Spam by Using Ham Passwords (Email Passwords)
• “Countering Spam with Ham-Authenticated Email and the Guarded Email Protocol” describes a challenge/response system
• [8] A GPL’ed minimal CAPTCHA C/R system.
• Spam-proofing the mail system; Linux Weekly News; December 17, 2003.
• hide email addresses on web sites with JavaScript or letter encoding
• Alternative way to hide email addresses on web sites with inline CSS
• Hiding Email Addresses A comprehensive list of methods on how to hide email addresses in source code from spam bots.