Welcome to the Anti-Spam-HOWTO!


"The Anti-Spam-Howto" is still in the formative stage. Soon we will have an
outline, and then content will start to be added. In the spirit of open source
projects, anyone is welcome to participate.

The document itself will be in Docbook XML format and be located in a CVS
repository at the Linux Documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/. The
project files can be viewed with a web browser at: 

 http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Anti-Spam-HOWTO/.

For those without tldp CVS access, a tarball of the project files can be
downloaded at:

 http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook/Anti-Spam-HOWTO/Anti-Spam-HOWTO.tar.gz?tarball=1

Occasionally, HTML versions of the HOWTO itself will be posted during the 
development process at:

  http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/antispam/

And a single page HTML version will be also be available in CVS.

An authoring guide for the LDP can be found at to help those who are not
familiar with writing documentation in this type of format:

 http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/

That guide also describes how to use CVS. Anonymous CVS checkouts are
possible, and once the document has some structure we will send a message to
this list describing how to check it out. We can then discuss its contents on
the list.

There is a general list for discussions about the LDP, where the idea for this
project was born, at discuss@en.tldp.org, found along with other relevant
lists at:

 http://lists.tldp.org/

A mailing list has been created to aid contributors. This list is hosted on a
machine at McGill University's Network and Communication  Services where I
work. The list server runs commercial software that operates in ways perhaps
unfamiliar to  those of you who have subscribed to open-source mailing lists
in the past.

The following link describes how to use this software and how to change
preferences:

 http://www.mcgill.ca/ncs/email/listserv/users/

To subscribe, send a message to

 LISTSERV@LISTS.MCGILL.CA

with a blank subject line, and body without signature:

 SUB ANTI-SPAM-HOWTO firstname lastname

That should get you on the list.

For example, it is configured by default to send acknowledgements of postings.
If you  want to disable this feature, you send a message to

 LISTSERV@LISTS.MCGILL.CA

with no subject and body containing just :

 SET ANTI-SPAM-HOWTO NOACK

Other options are described in the user guide menioned in the url above.



Some on-topic reading material courtesy of Chris:

General

    What is Spam ?

        The history of Spam
            http://www.templetons.com/brad/spam/spam25.html

        General links
            http://www.elan.net/~william/asrg/index.htm
            http://wecanstopspam.org/jsp/Wiki?StartingPoints
            http://www.spamcon.org/
            http://www.petemoss.com/spam/
            http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html

        Best Practices
            http://www.bestprac.org/principles.htm

    Why do I get Spam?


    How do spammers work?
        http://www.paulgraham.com/howspam.html
        open relays, domain hijacking, forged headers, joe jobbing,...



    Why is it hard to stop Spam?

    What can I do to avoid getting spammed?
        http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/

Anti-Spam Technology

    History,Survey,Overview
        http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/18916
        http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html

    The recent MIT anti-spam conference
        http://spamconference.org/proceedings2003.html

    Bayesian Filtering

    DNSBL/RBL

    Hashing/Checksums
        http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/
        http://razor.sourceforge.net/
        http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/


Local Spam Filtering

    procmail
        http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#pageTOC

    text filters
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-spamf.html

    whitelisting/blacklisting
        http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/spam-filtering.html
        http://www.mindrape.org/caffeine/squashing_spam.html
    RBL

http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/200002http://www.petemoss.com/spam/http://www.petemoss.com/spam/20233810.E7575@impressive.net

    mozilla
        http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/spam.html

    perl hacks
        http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/03/spam3.html

    spamassassin
        http://www.spamassassin.org/index.html

        simple procmail recipe
            http://spamassassin.org/dist/procmailrc.example

        movemail with mozilla
            http://tagzilla.mozdev.org/mozilla-spamassassin-HOWDID.html
        integration with razor,dcc,pyzor, dnsbls (built in)

    bogofilter
        http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
        http://www.bgl.nu/~glouis/bogofilter/

        bogofilter + procmail
            http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/bogofilter-man.html

        bogofilter +spamassassin + procmail

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/bogofilter/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-faq.html#spamassassin

    crm114
        http://crm114.sourceforge.net/

    spambayes
        http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

    A larger list of filters
        http://www.paulgraham.com/filters.html

    DCC
        http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/FAQ.html#other-MUAs


Site-Wide Filtering

    Sendmail
        http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html

    DNSBL/RBL

    Milters
        http://www.milter.org/
        http://www.wanlink.com/spamilter/
        http://www.nspasm.org/about.html

    Spamassassin
        http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/
        http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

    DCC

Network Protocols

    http://www.irtf.org/asrg/
    http://www.camram.org/
    http://www.cauce.org/proposal/