Jim Kingdon's Anti-spam Page

Most people probably now know why unsolicited bulk email ("spam") is bad, but if not see spam.abuse.net.

Here are my own anti-spam ideas/links:

• Filtering and blocking spam is a good idea, but the ideal filter is shared among many sites, to spread the work and so that there is a cleaner incentive/mechanism to get removed from the filter. See for example SpamAssassin (including the various block lists that it can consult).
• I wrote the "How to Complain" page which you may have seen.
• There needs to be a good guide, aimed at people whose interest is marketing, about what one should do to sell online. There is a lot written by marketers who don't understand the internet, and internet denizens who don't understand marketing, but the spamcon foundation is a good place to start.
• See Brad Templeton's spam page for fairly lengthy thoughts on various ways to regulate spam, and why getting the government involved is fraught with peril.