spamstats

spamstats is what remains of the historical spam museum and archive. the archive was created in 1996 to collect and preserve spam from my electronic mailbox, on the possibility that it might be of value to future net.archaeologists. the archive grew more rapidly than i would have preferred, and by early 1999 was reaching an unmanageable size. this, combined with the complaints of some extremely lame people (curiously enough, none of whom were spammers) heralded the archive's demise.

spam by month

(last 12 months)

  Aug/2004   4998    
  Jul/2004  10214    
  Jun/2004  11553    
  May/2004  10822    
  Apr/2004  14825    
  Mar/2004  12334    
  Feb/2004  11213    
  Jan/2004  12645    
  Dec/2003  12896    
  Nov/2003  12937    
  Oct/2003  12972    
  Sep/2003   9613    

(complete history)

spam by mail client

(top 20)

  Microsoft Outlook Ex  37068    
     Microsoft Outlook   8163    
  Microsoft Outlook IM   5462    
                   AOL   5321    
  Internet Mail Servic   3984    
              The Bat!   3831    
                Eudora   3676    
            MIME-tools   3272    
  eGroups Message Post   3178    
         mPOP Web-Mail   1535    
               Mozilla   1213    
            Eudora Pro   1205    
               FoxMail   1062    
          Pegasus Mail   1047    
         Microsoft CDO    438    
               Foxmail    370    
  jpfree Group Mail Ex    359    
         superx-mailer    313    
                   PHP    303    
  Microsoft Office Out    300    

spam links

the net abuse faq

basic information on spam as well as other forms of internet abuse.

alt.spam faq

describes how to figure out where a forged e-mail or usenet news post originated from.

network abuse clearinghouse

information and resources for reporting internet abuse and abusive users.

cauce

an organization advocating legislative solutions to spam/uce.

anti-spam software

spamassassin

one spam filter to rule them all, one spam filter to find them, one spam filter to bring them all, and in the regex bind them.

vipul's razor

a distributed, collaborative spam filter. a generally sound concept, but the implementation is closed and kind of gnarly (heavy reliance on cpan is not always a good thing).

make money fast

the mmf hall of humiliation

putting an end to online scammers, or at least laughing at them mercilessly!

chain letters

united states postal service policy on mmf schemes.

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