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I hate spam more than you hate spam. I've spent a huge amount of time and money fighting spam over the last ten years. Here are links to some of my documents about spam.

Note1: do not ever click the "remove me" links in spam; that will simply confirm to the spammer that they found a real address with a real human, which will result in you getting tons more spam. You can safely click the "remove me" links from legitimate senders, e.g., some store you used online and where you gave them your email address but now would not want any more email from them.

Note2: if you get spam, be sure you carefully study all of the original email headers to see in fact where the spam came from, as spammers usually forge the "From" address to some email address other than their own. (Spammers don't ever want you to know their real email address, as they don't want spam, they want you to click their stupid links.) Pay attention especially to all of the "received" headers to see in fact which servers delivered the spam along to you.

• The real scoop on how spammers actually get your address. This is important to know if you want less spam.
• You should consider tagged addresses.
• My safemailto.com website shows how to publish your email address but keeping it from spammers.
• One thing we need against spammers is better laws.
• My proposal for rollout of open sender identification protocols.
• My proposal for Email Service Provider anti-spam APIs.
• Here is some corporate spam I receive.
• Here is my master list of anti-spam software.
• If you run your own linux mail server, my favorite tool for rolling your own anti-spam system is procmail.
• There are lots of ways to spell viagra.

• CAUCE is a decent anti-spam lobbyist organization.
• If a spammer sends spam from your email address, report it to the FTC Identity Theft and they claim they will prosecute.
• Paul Graham's spam pages include great technicle articles about Bayesian filters. See also SpamProbe implementation.
• Spam.com - these guys have a sense of humor...

• Google gmail rocks
• Eudora is a good email client

Ok, this isn't about email advertising, but see also:

• PayTrust will stop your billers from ever sending you any paper
• Massachusetts Do Not Call List Program seems cool, but I actually use this as an example for why you should not trust politicians to protect your privacy. What is to prevent a company buying this list to publishing it on the net?
• AdSubtract will kill popup windows and other ads.
• Tivo et al will allow you to skip ads on TV.
• TV Allowance will restrict the number of hours your kids watch TV, and thus will also cut down on the numbers of ads they see.