Stopping Spam

Alan Schwartz is an assistant professor of clinical decision-making in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Managing Mailing Lists (O'Reilly & Associates, 1998). In his spare time, he develops and maintains the PennMUSH MUD server and brews beer and mead with his wife. As mail administrator for a number of organizations, he deals with unsolicited email on a daily basis; as the moderator of the rec.games.mud.announce USENET newsgroup, and a NoCeM issuer for rec.games.mud.admin, he gleefully fights back against netnews spam. Turn-ons for Alan include sailing, programming in Perl, playing duplicate bridge, and drinking Anchor Porter. Turn-offs include spam (obviously!) and watery American lagers. Simson Garfinkel is a computer consultant, science writer, and columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of PGP: Pretty Good Privacy (O'Reilly & Associates, 1994) and the coauthor of Practical UNIX & Internet Security (O'Reilly & Associates, 1996), and Web Security & Commerce (O'Reilly & Associates, 1997). Mr. Garfinkel writes frequently about science and technology, as well as their social impacts. This is his seventh book.

Preface. Chapter 1. What's Spam and What's the Problem? Slapped in the Face What's Wrong with Spam A Taxonomy of Spam. Chapter 2. The History of Spam Prehistory Early Bulk Email Usenet and the Spam Cancelers In Their Own Words. Chapter 3. Spamming Today The Players The Technology Spamming in the Future. Chapter 4. Internet Basics Addresses Protocols Email Usenet News Instant Messages. Chapter 5. A User's Guide to Email Spam Safeguarding Your Email Address Filtering Junk Mail Responding to Junk Mail. Chapter 6. A User's Guide to Usenet Spam Filtering News Responding to Spam. Chapter 7. Spam Stopping for Administrators and ISPs Policy Choices Blocking Incoming Spam Stopping Outgoing Spam. Chapter 8. Community Action Sharing Information Group Action Legal and Legislative Action Informing the Public. Appendix A. Tools and Information. Appendix B. Cyber Promotions Timeline. Index