LDP/LDP/retired/Anti-Spam-HOWTO/README

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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/