Various Pages to help you fight spam

1. Site News: See what's happening to this section, Studio42, and the administration.
   
   
2. Can Spammers reform? Apparently some people learn from their mistakes. This is an actual email from a one-time spammer who got the clue very quickly.
   
   
3. How to not be a spammer. Read this if you intend to run a mailing list and want to avoid being a spammer.
   
   
4. 101 Things to do with a spammer: SATIRE, or is it? 101 ideas of things to be done with spammers.
   
   
5. Disciplining spammers: Your first line of defense
   
   
6. What to do if you've been spammed: A convenient list of things to do when you've been spammed.
   
   
7. An essay on commerce: Just because we hate spam doesn't mean we are anti-commerce.
   
   
8. .htacess: A fairly current version of my .htaccess file. See who is being blocked from this site.
   
   
9. The Jargon file: Find out what those acronyms mean, otherwise RTFM.
   
   
10. Senate Bill S.1618: Commentary
    
    
11. Senate Bill S.1618: broken down and exposed.
    
    
12. Must See sites: Other anti-spam sites, links and more that I've discovered. This is not like the links page, where those are visitors who have added links. Also: WHITE HAT ISP's.
    
    
13. Picture of a spammer: Artist rendition.
    
    
14. Portrait of a spammer: With labels so clear, even a spammer can understand them.
    
    
15. Spam vs. spam: How the meat-like product is like or different that the email garbage.
    
    
16. What spam is not: A page inspired by a spammer trying to get me off his back. I think it backfired on him.
    
    
17. Inside the Mind of a Spammer: Fact is stranger than fiction, and this very real profile of a spammer shows exactly the sort of mindset we are dealing with.
    
    
18. Spammers: Nothing here to see unless you're an address harvesting "bot". Addresses of spammers from taken from spams.
    
    
19. Known Spammer Sites: A list of known spammer sites. This is currently out of date.
    
    
20. The UMass Anarchists' Mailing List: These wanna-be terrorists signed me up for their mailing list. Getting off the list proved to be a problem. This could have all been avoided.
    
    
21. The Phone Threat Page: Transcript of a threatening voicemail left to me by a spammer. Links to the actual audio as well.
    
    
22. The Phone Threat 2 Page: Another threatening voicemail left to me by a spammer. Links to the actual audio as well. Transcript coming soon!
    
    
23. The Truth about Toll-Free Numbers: Or: Everything you didn't want to know about toll-free numbers, but were forced to find out anyways.
    
    
24. Why I hate spam: To avoid LOTS of questions I'm sick of answering over and over again. Find out WHY I hate spam.

If you are one of the dilweeds who sent me unsolicited email or are someone thinking about it, drop dead.
Also, if you've got a complaint about my anti-spam feelings or want to scold me for being justifiably sick of spam, I have the following words of wisdom for you:

YOU'VE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE!