Netizens Against Gratuitious Spamming (Fight Junk Email)

<BODY> <FONT COLOR="green"><H2 align=center>Welcome</H2></FONT> Welcome to Netizens Against Gratuitous Spamming (NAGS). This site is dedicated to finding a way to stop the proliferation of junk email on the internet in such a way as to not set dangerous legal precendents. The current focus of this site is on technical solutions to the problem. This includes tutorials on how to trace down the people who are sending you junk mail so you can complain to their system administrators as well as the <A HREF="spamfilter.html">junk email filter</a> I have been developing. I intend to add additional sections in the future examining the pro's and con's of some of the current legal solutions that are being considered.<p> While the majority of <A HREF="/~ivl/guest/index-nags.html">feedback</a> I have <a href="/~ivl/guests-nags.html">received</a> about this site has been extremely positive (<A HREF="awards.html">named "Cool site of the day", written up in numerous articles, etc.</A>), I have on occasion received comments like this one:<p> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Courier" SIZE=-1> I think you are a rebel, and a sick bastard. Why don't you get a life. And quite scaring everybody. I hope the CIA is watching you, because your the type that would probably bomb the Oklamha building. Hopefully your service provider will cancel your service, as soon as possible. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> Just to set the record straight: I develop Intranet business applications for the MIS department of a large company. I have been a proponent of commercial use of the internet since day one and have participated in the development of a number of commercial web sites and online stores. You can learn more about why I created this site by reading the <A HREF="mission_statement.html"> Mission Statement.</A> If you would like to learn more about me, visit my <A HREF="/~ivl/index.html">home page.</a>.<p> Most of the time I have spent on NAGS has been on the <A HREF="spamfilter.html">junk mail filter</A>. I don't have the time to set up this site the way I would like (i.e. aesthetics and content). If you have any free time and are interested in contributing to the project, please <A HREF="mailto:ivl@cs.hmc.edu">leave me a message</a> and I will get back to you ASAP.<P> These pages are optimized for viewing with Netscape and Internet Explorer v3.0<P> <HR> <FONT COLOR="green"><H2 align=center>Table of Contents</H2></FONT> <TABLE border=1 cellspacing=5 cellpadding=5> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#ffff00"><A HREF="mission_statement.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/mission_statement.jpg" ALT="Mission Statement" WIDTH=109 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffff00"><B>Introduction to NAGS and my motivation for creating these pages.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#f5d421"><A HREF="bite_back.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/bite_back.jpg" ALT="Bite Back" WIDTH=57 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#f5d421"><B>A series of tutorials on what you can do to get yourself removed from some of these mailing lists.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#ecaa42"><A HREF="case_studies.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/case_studies.jpg" ALT="Case Studies" WIDTH=84 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#ecaa42"><B>Examples of spam mail I have received, the email addresses of the responsible parties, and what success I had (if any) in getting a hold of a responsible party.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#e37f64"><A HREF="spamfilter.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/mail_filter.jpg" ALT="Mail Filter" WIDTH=69 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#e37f64"><B>The NAGS Mail Filter. This PERL script works on UNIX systems and allows you to reject mail from known spammers.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#da5585"><A HREF="resources.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/internet_resources.jpg" ALT="Internet Resources" WIDTH=105 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#da5585"><B>Links to other sites that want to help fight spamming. Some of them include lists where you can sign yourself up on to be removed from mailing lists.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#d53f96"><A HREF="news.html"><IMG SRC="/gifs/nags_news.jpg" ALT="NAGS News" WIDTH=76 HEIGHT=50 border=0></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#d53f96"><B>News that relates to this site and the war against spam.</B></TD> </TR> <TR> <TH BGCOLOR="#cc15b7"><A HREF="awards.html"><FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS" SIZE=+1>Recognition</FONT></A></TD> <TD BGCOLOR="#cc15b7"><B>Links to some of the awards (cool site of the day!), and magazine articles (CNN, NY times, PC week, Wired..) that have recognized this site.</B></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR> <FONT COLOR="green"><H2 align=center>Spam Chaff</H2></FONT> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/">Courtesy of "JohnBob"</A><p> This is chaff for SPAMers and junkmailers that use programs to go fishing for mail addresses in web pages. Don't use these yourself. Most of these would only affect a poorly written mail program. They may not do more than fill up some error log. But if everybody did a variation on this the SPAMers would get bogged down on bogus mail addresses. We can only hope. <p> <A HREF="http://www.paranoia.com/~dtox/">Dtox's Spammers</A> <A HREF="spam_chaff1.html">Spam Chaff HTML 1</A> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/chaff1.cgi">Spam Chaff CGI 1</A> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/chaff2.cgi">Spam Chaff CGI 2</A> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/chaff3.cgi">Spam Chaff CGI 3</A> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/chaff4.cgi">Spam Chaff CGI 4</A> <A HREF="http://www.io.com/~johnbob/chaff5.cgi">Spam Chaff CGI 5</A> <HR> <ADDRESS>Last modified May 25, 1997</ADDRESS>  <div id="siteMap"> <A HREF="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ivl/">Home Page of Ian Darke</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ivl/writing/non_fiction/lsd/">Postulated Mechanisms of LSD by Ian Darke</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ivl/digital_art/">Ian Darke Digital Art</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ivl/personal/resume.html">Ian Darke: Resume</A> <A HREF="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~ivl/personal/awards.html">Awards won by Ian Darke</A> </div> </BODY>