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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 junk email filter 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.
While the majority of feedback I have received about this site has been extremely positive (named "Cool site of the day", written up in numerous articles, etc.), I have on occasion received comments like this one:
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.Just to set the record straight: I develop Intranet business applications for the MIS department of a large corporation. 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. I have also written a JavaScript based storefront with a shopping basket metaphor for Internet commerce as well as a PERL based "Company Store" that is used by my employers. I am not against commercial use of the internet. However, I am opposed to commercial abuse of the internet. While I am far from the king of grammar, I suspect that the writing abilities of the person who left me that comment yields some insight into what sort of people these spammers are. You can learn more about why I created this site by reading the Mission Statement. If you would like to learn more about me, visit my home page..
Most of the time I have spent on NAGS has been on the junk mail filter. 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 leave me a message and I will get back to you ASAP.
These pages were optimized for viewing with Netscape v2+ and Internet Explorer v3+ (yes -- the HTML is *that* old)
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| Introduction to NAGS and my motivation for creating these pages. |
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| A series of tutorials on what you can do to get yourself removed from some of these mailing lists. |
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| 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. |
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| The NAGS Mail Filter. This PERL script works on UNIX systems and allows you to reject mail from known spammers. |
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| 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. |
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| News that relates to this site and the war against spam. |
| Recognition | 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. |
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.
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