Why Spam Is Bad A collection of links to help show Internet marketers why spam is harmful to their business and to provide some alternative means of responsible marketing. http://www.whyspamisbad.com/

Spam v. Profit An e-mail marketer argues that ISPs can profit from e-mail marketing if it is done responsibly. http://www.isp-planet.com/perspectives/chooseyourmail.html

Address Munging Considered Harmful A paper arguing against the practice of spam-blocking on Usenet by using an altered email address. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/

How Bulk E-mail Can Destroy Your Small Business An editorial on the negative effects of sending spam. http://www.twowriters.net/spam.htm

Information Filtering Resources Papers about and links to projects about ways of filtering electronic information. http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/

Unsolicited Bulk Email: Mechanisms for Control This report by the Internet Mail Consortium discusses a variety of filtering mechanisms. http://www.imc.org/ube-sol.html

Unsolicited Bulk Email: Definitions and Problems This report discusses the costs of spam. http://www.imc.org/ube-def.html

On Spam: Wasting time on the Internet Bill Gates gives his views on spam. http://www.microsoft.com/BillGates/columns/1998essay/3-25col.asp

How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-mail and Newsgroups Article about how businesses can advertise without spamming. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3098.txt

Slashdot - Distributed Spam Detection Threaded discussion of spam detection systems and the razor p2p system specifically. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/01/1421201&mode=thread

How the UK Can Stop Spam Without Damaging Free Speech Suggested non-extraterritorial UK legislation that would stop spam globally. http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/prose/spam.html

Alleee and Franc's Insolitology A description of Nigerian scams (also called 419 scams), with images and links. http://www.insolitology.com/usenet/scams.htm

Spam, Lies and Fake Reporters Describes the tactics of Opt In Inc. and the president of Opt In Inc., Charles "Steve" Hardigree. http://www.nukespam.org/OptInInc.html

Outlook SPAM Tutorial Tutorial to provide easy way to filter your unwanted junk email in Outlook and Outlook Express. http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/spam.htm

Al Iverson's Spamresource.com Collection of articles written by a former employee of MAPS. http://www.spamresource.com/

E-mail Marketing Articles Articles about how e-mail marketers can avoid spamming. http://www.emailresults.com/articles.asp

NYTimes.com - 3 Web Sites Closed in Spam Inquiry Three companies using email to solicit the sale of nonexistent web addresses have been ordered to close their web businesses. [requires free NYTimes.com registration to view] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/technology/12SPAM.html

Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam Discussion of spam history and early spam sightings. http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/spam25.html

Some Simple and Practical Means to Help Avoid Spam Suggestions on how to choose an email address and how to disclose it with care on the web. http://w2.syronex.com/jmr/spam.html