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	Spam Killer FAQ
		It was formed for the purpose of providing the spam fighters of Worldnet a place to provide assistance and support to all those interested in helping to eliminate spam from the Internet.
		The full headers are adequate information for locating the source of the spam.
		Most of the folks that participate in the newsgroup are very good at tracing spam; however, we tend to be very bad at mind reading.
	home.att.net /~marjie1/SKFAQ.htm (518 words)

	Newsgroup spam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.
		The first widely recognized Usenet spam (though not the most famous) was posted on January 18, 1994 by Clarence L. Thomas IV, a sysadmin at Andrews University.
		In the late 1990s, spam became used as a means of vandalising newsgroups, with malicious users committing acts of sporgery to make targeted newsgroups all but unreadable without heavily filtering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newsgroup_spam (427 words)

	Newsgroup spam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Newsgroup spam is a type of (A canned meat made largely from pork) spam where the targets are (Click link for more info and facts about Usenet) Usenet (Click link for more info and facts about newsgroup) newsgroups.
		The word "spam" was usually taken to mean excessive multiple posting (EMP), and other (A newly invented word or phrase) neologisms were coined for other abuses — such as "velveeta" (from the processed cheese product) for excessive cross-posting.
		A subset of spam was deemed cancellable spam, for which it is considered justified to issue third-party cancel messages.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/newsgroup_spam.htm (522 words)

	Encyclopedia: Newsgroup spam
		Newsgroup spam is a type of spamming where the targets are Usenet newsgroups.
		A culture of neutrality towards content precluded defining spam on the basis of advertisement or commercial solicitations.
		The prevalence of Usenet spam led to the development of the Breidbart Index as an objective measure of a message's "spamminess".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Newsgroup-spam (514 words)

	Spam (electronic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although spam is merely an extension of mass communications through the ages, some have argued that spam is different because the costs, unlike with traditional methods, are borne disproportionately by the recipient and not by the sender.
		Spam is analogous to junk fax advertising, which also requires the recipient to carry the brunt of the cost.
		Spam is frequently used to advertise scams, such as diploma mills, advance fee fraud, pyramid schemes, stock pump-and-dump schemes, and phishing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spamming (5182 words)

	RISKS of Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		People who know where spammers find e-mail addresses are likely to stop posting useful messages to newsgroups or mailing lists, and are likely to ask that all their past messages be removed from any online archives.
		Newsgroup posters who post under a fake address and direct all replies -- including ones not of general interest -- to the newsgroup, cause newsgroups to fill with junk, causing people to stop reading them.
		In return for which, perhaps a half-dozen people are making a mediocre living, mostly by selling spamming services to the gullible and larcenous who can't believe that if they send one-million ads for an MLM or credit-repair scheme, they will probably get fewer than ten positive responses.
	spam.abuse.net /others/kfl.html (421 words)

	Newsgroup Spam
		Spam is a stupid thread of meaningless junk like “Make Money Fast” or other bogus things they try to get you to buy or log onto.
		Newsgroup spam is similar to the spam you get in your email.
		Our servers are classified as a "transitory network." A newsgroup name in and of itself does not mean that what is posted to that group corresponds to the name of the newsgroup.
	www.usenet.com /articles/newsgroup_spam.htm (284 words)

	Newsgroup spam
		The first widely recognized Usenet spam was an advertisement for legal services.
		It was posted in April 1994 by lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel;, and hawked legal representation for United States immigrants seeking papers ("green cards").
		Throughout that period, the term "spam" on Usenet was used to refer specifically to excessive multiple posting.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/newsgroup_spam (270 words)

	Spam Prevention - Fighting Spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the terms is also used to refer to a multitude of other electronic media such as instant message spam, newsgroup spam, search engine spam, blog comment spam and even cell phone messaging spam.
		Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have effectively no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it has proved difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.
		If your spam filter is set at a very restrictive setting that weeds out as many suspect messages as possible, it might be sending legitimate e-mail to the electronic dump.
	www.dezignsbyt.com /spam-prevention.html (815 words)

	Dan Garcia's Spam Homepage
		Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings (starting to chant): Spam spam spam spam...
		spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
		The average consumers of Spam are families with several children, especially in the southeastern U.S. In 1989, the U.S. armed forces bought 3.3 million pounds of SPAM.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~ddgarcia/spam.html (4109 words)

	General FAQ
		Some ISPs use programs such as Spam Hippo to control the amount of spam that enters their newsfeeds; but, filtering out e-mail spam would be an impossible task.
		Since most spam comes with your e-mail address in the bcc: field, you can filter the bulk of the UCE by filtering out any mail that does not have your e-mail address contained in the To: or cc: fields.
		Your ISP may be using Port 25 Blocking to prevent spammers from relaying spam from their service through another machine.
	home.att.net /~marjie1/faq.htm (1862 words)

	spam from FOLDOC
		It is possible to spam a newsgroup with one well- (or ill-) planned message, e.g.
		Posting a message to a significant proportion of all newsgroups is a sure way to spam Usenet and become an object of almost universal hatred.
		Spam in this sense is sort of like the electronic equivalent of junk mail sent to "Occupant".
	www.foldoc.org /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=spam (497 words)

	SPAM
		Generally SPAM is sent to thousands and sometimes millions of people without prior approval, promoting a particular product, service or a scam to get other peoples money.
		When talking in chat or a newsgroup SPAM also known as flooding is the process of posting multiple lines of the same text two or more times.
		In a newsgroup if a message is posted two or more times this is also considered SPAM or a flood of messages.
	www.computerhope.com /jargon/s/spam.htm (239 words)

	Newsgroup Spam
		Newsgroup spam is a fact of life on Usenet.
		Usenet spam is usually any article that: Advertises a product, website, person; Ignores the topic of the newsgroups; Promotes adult material on a non-adult site; Promotes business scams; Provokes other Usenet users; and Is (usually) posted to more than one newsgroup at a time.
		A moderator is able to monitor and control the level of spam on a newsgroup.
	www.binaries.net /articles/newsgroup_spam.htm (213 words)

	- Newsgroup Spam -
		Spam is something unpleasant that we all must deal with in our every day use of the Internet.
		A lot of the spam found in newsgroups is usually cross-posted in many different groups and often in groups that are very off topic, which topics having nothing to do with the product or service being advertised.
		Newsgroup spam is something that must be fought constantly and with the help of filters and people watching the newsgroups for it to show up so it can be stopped.
	www.cyberfiber.com /articles/newsgroup_spam.htm (322 words)

	Origin of the term "spam" to mean net abuse
		I wrote this to be a history of the term spam, though that required a bit of the history of the act itself.
		Newsgroup spam was brought into check, oddly enough, by people applying Depew's ARMM principles with better software engineering skills.
		As E-mail spam grew, it became apparent that many mailings were being generated to anybody who had posted to a USENET newsgroup.
	www.templetons.com /brad/spamterm.html (2851 words)

	FAQ: The Newsgroup Care Cancel Cookbook
		For excessive cross-posting/multi-posting (ECP/EMP) spam, the BI is equal to the sum over copies of the square root of the number of newsgroups; see the Usenet spam thresholds.
		Some interpret the Usenet spam thresholds in such a way that such articles, of which there will always be at least twenty around, are substantively identical to each other and can be canceled as ‘unintentional spam’.
		If you want to practice a little before canceling on a ‘real’ newsgroup (or just plain want to try it), cancel away on alt.sex.cancel; that is a spam trap newsgroup chartered with a ‘retromoderation clause’ stating any and all articles in it – presumed spam – to be cancelable.
	www.xs4all.nl /~rosalind/faq-care.html (7553 words)

	Why Spam Won't Go Away - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Spam is such a common tactic not because it's particularly effective--the response rates for spam are very low--but because it's ridiculously cheap.
		And that number is what spamming houses charge their customers to deliver spam; if you're a clever hacker, you can build your own spam network for much less money.
		Spam costs corporations millions in Internet capacity, clogs up infrastructure, requires people and products to deal with it and wastes employees' time wading through whatever spam makes it into their inboxes.
	www.forbes.com /home/security/2006/12/11/spam-security-email-tech-security-cz_bs_1212spam.html (1127 words)

	Why Am I Getting All This Spam?
		Some spam is generated through attacks on mail servers, methods that don't rely on the collection of e-mail addresses at all.
		For the vast majority of the spam we received due to USENET postings, messages were sent to addresses referenced in the message header, not to addresses referenced in the text of the message.
		While "alt.sex.erotica" generated twice as much spam as the next newsgroup, we do not believe that this data supports any strong conclusion regarding which newsgroups are the most susceptible to spam.
	www.cdt.org /speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml (4012 words)

	STOP NEWSGROUP SPAMMING!
		Spam, for those who don't know, is (typically): - In its most basic and simplest definition, anything that is wasted bandwidth -- assuming that much of the Internet isn't by definition wasted bandwidth.
		Spam can also be a legitimate thread given an appropriate forum, but it's posted in the wrong newsgroup(s).
		One of the real problems with spam is that the responses are also spam, despite perhaps in some cases being an otherwise legitimate continuation of a legitimate thread.
	www.malak.ca /spam.html (1142 words)

	The Net Abuse FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		There have been "customized" spams where each post made some effort to apply to each individual newsgroup, but the general thrust of each article was the same.
		Once a slow spam is detected and posted to news.admin.net-abuse.announce, it makes it easier to keep tabs on a particular poster or series of messages in the future.
		This is sometimes done when a spam (or spew) continues unabated even after the spam cancellers and other net-abuse activists have attempted to contact somebody and ask them to stop.
	www.cybernothing.org /faqs/net-abuse-faq.html (6961 words)

	NANAE FAQ: Understanding NANAE
		Spam is just one way that the scammers may use to try to entice people towards their chosen shares.
		After all, spam is a cheap way of reaching lots of people, who probably don't have experience of investing, and won't be wise to the tricks of the trade.
		In the context of spam fighting a honeypot is a more limited concept: it is a system that is intended to look like an open proxy or open email relay but to in fact not be either.
	www.spamfaq.net /terminology.shtml (9177 words)

	Schneier on Security: Combating Spam
		Spam is such a common tactic not because it's particularly effective; the response rates for spam are very low.
		spams and the success rate is 0.01%, the probability that the sole person who's interested would open the message ahead of 50 complainers (out of a potential 9999) is pretty slim.
		Spam used to be called UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) which fits a more narrow profile and often describes the cost effective marketing practices of reputable companies which might honor an 'unsubscribe' request.
	www.schneier.com /blog/archives/2005/05/combating_spam.html (7042 words)

	SpamCop.net - SpamCop FAQ: How should I report usenet (newsgroup) spam?
		By normal usenet definitions, spam is a message which is either cross-posted excessively or multi-posted excessively.
		For instance, if you are reading a pro-choice newsgroup, and you see an objectionable post from a pro-lifer, this should not be reported to the ISP using SpamCop or any other method.
		If the person continues to post spam to your group and they are unwilling to be educated, only then should you bring the issue to the attention of their ISP.
	www.spamcop.net /fom-serve/cache/144.html (365 words)

	Newsgroups and Spam - EcoFuture
		If you are receiving junk e-mail, see the section on junk e-mail and spam for direct action you can take against e-mail spam, and instructions on how to filter e-mail.
		When posting to newsgroups, you can alter your e-mail address so that it is still discernible to real people, but confusing to bots, which take the address in its entirety.
		Probably the only way to truly eliminate spam is to get the attention of Congress and enact legislation similar to the US "junk fax" law, which makes it illegal for anyone to send you unsolicited faxes.
	www.ecofuture.org /jmnews.html (1619 words)

	Deja News joins antispam war \| CNET News.com
		Tired of its service being clogged by spam from Usenet newsgroup postings, Deja News is hitting back today with new filters to block postings of unsolicited commercial messages.
		Finding spam in the archived newsgroups not only angers some of the estimated 3.5 million people who use the Deja News Web site each month, but droves of unsolicited newsgroup postings also cause undue strain on Deja News' infrastructure, it complains.
		The site also will filter incoming spam with in-house technology that uses artificial intelligence to look for machine-generated postings, such as the same text message being sent to thousands of newsgroups at one time.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-206096.html?legacy=cnet (676 words)

	Nigerian spam, Nigerian 419 scam, 419 scam, Scam baiting, Techniques of scam baiting, Result of Scam baiting, Scam ...
		Spam is an "unsolicited commercial e-mail" advertising sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.
		Nigerian spam is the fraudulent way to pull out money from victims promising an immense fortune.
		Providing relevant information regarding spam and its after effects, we alert you on the process of spamming, by making you read between the lines.
	www.nigerianspam.com (478 words)

	Spam - An Internet Tutorial
		The term spam is said to come from a Monty Python skit from the second series of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
		Spam requires your ISP provide excess capacity to store the spam.
		This newsgroup is a members helping members group; they can provide you with assistance in determining the source of any spam you receive and how to fight it.
	www.wurd.com /cl_email_faq_spam.php (1169 words)

	[SC-Help] Re: Newsgroup spam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		>> >> spamcop will send to source only for newsgroup spam >> >> I find it is best to reply to spam in the newsgroup informing others >> of the abuse addresses for the spam.
		So, not only should you be /emailing/ the poster [which /is/ often possible for commercial spam] according to the SC guidelines, but also most providers are not interested in trying to figure out if the usenet guidelines for advertisements have been broken or not.
		Whereas /all/ spam [as in email spam] is clearly "wrong" - that isn't the case for usenet "spam" - and many providers aren't interested in trying to figure it out.
	news.spamcop.net /pipermail/spamcop-help/2003-July/039546.html (300 words)

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