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I. Organizations and Services:

* SpamCop
http://spamcop.net/

Spam reporting service; report spam quickly and accurately (free!). Or choose from a variety of filtering options ranging from the easiest web-mail account to advanced network- wide spam blocking.

* Sam Spades Org
http://www.samspade.org/

All-In-One online tool which takes a hostname or an IP address, guesses at the domain name, and then runs some whois queries to find out who owns the domain and the block of IP addresses it lives in, and traces the route packets take to the host.

* Spamgourmet
http://www.spamgourmet.com/

Self-destructing disposable email addresses, titanium strength spam blocking, very short learning curve

* Network Abuse Clearinghouse
http://www.abuse.net/

The Network Abuse Clearinghouse is intended to help the Internet community to report and control network abuse and abusive users.

* Spamhouse project
http://www.spamhaus.org/index.lasso

Where does spam come from? Who are the spammers?
Spamhaus tracks the Internet's worst Spammers, known Spam Gangs and Spam Support Services, and works with ISPs and Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and remove persistent spammers from the Internet.

* spam.abuse.net
http://spam.abuse.net/

possibly the best collection of anti-spam links and resources to be found anywhere on the Internet.

* Spam Links
http://www.geocities.com/spamresources/spamlinks.htm

Another huge link collection.


II. Advisories:

* How do spammers harvest email addresses ?
http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html

* How To Complain To The Spammer's Provider
http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/howtocomplain.shtml

* Prevention Is the Best Medicine: Creating an Anti-spam Strategy
(Tutorial)
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1567361

* More Tips and help for regular users
http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/

- Spam reporting
- Tracing Spams
- Hiding addresses from spammers
- Spam e-mail blocking and filtering
- Resources for parents

* A Plan for Spam
(About spam filtering based on the bayesian approach)
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html


III. Newsgroups: Thanks to discogail!

alt.spam
alt.stop.spamming
alt.kill.spammers