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Amazon.com ReviewIf unwanted advertising is filling your e-mail and clogging up your favorite newsgroups, or if you're a system administrator plagued by spammers, you'll love this book. Schwartz and Garfinkel examine the growth of spam and give readers the tools to help end the problem.
The authors first explain why spam is more than just a mere annoyance and offer solutions that anyone with a basic knowledge of how the Internet and e-mail work can understand. Readers without such knowledge needn't worry--the chapter on Internet basics can get them up to speed.
Schwartz and Garfinkel demonstrate technical, political, and social approaches to keeping spam out of your mailbox and off your system. They discuss the many ways spammers falsify their mail, using fraudulent techniques to disguise where they come from. The authors show you how to avoid being fooled and what you can do to help catch abusers and make them responsible for their misbehavior. --Elizabeth Lewis
Product DescriptionThis is a book about spam -- unwanted email messages and inappropriate news articles -- and what you can do to prevent it, stop it, and even outlaw it. It's a book for people who have seen their mailboxes fill up with useless messages and unsolicited advertisements, and who are tired of footing the bill for them in their Internet service charges. It's a book for people who are upset that they can't find the on-topic postings in their once-helpful newsgroups, and fear that the community of newsgroup readers will dissolve in disgust.
Stopping Spam looks at the problem of spam and explains ways you can eliminate unwanted messages and news postings. It provides information of use to individual users (who don't want to be bothered by spam) and to system administrators (also news administrators, mail administrators, and network administrators, who are responsible for minimizing spam problems within their organizations or service providers). It covers:
- Introduction to spam: what is it, why is it a problem, who are the spammers and why do they do it, what are the types of spam (spam that sells things, spam that contains political messages, spam that hurts people's reputations), what is its history, what is its impact on the Internet now and in the future?
- Internet messaging: a brief look at the technical underpinnings of Internet messaging to explain how email and spam work.
- User's guides to email and news spam: how to protect your email address, filter email and news articles, and respond to spam.
- Administrator's guide: how to trace spam, make policy choices for your site, block both incoming and outgoing spam, and select the right technical tools.
- Community responses: how to join forces to defeat spam. There are many possible responses to spam: simply delete it, complain to spammers and/or their service providers, share information, trap spammers, litigate, campaign for legislative solutions, use the media.
- Other resources: offline and online documents, tools, mailing lists, and more.
However, I have to admit: This book is for intermediate users. An absolute beginner would get lost and a sysadmin already knows MOST of this stuff. Also, it is quite Unix-centric and gives zero advice on how to use MS-based mail servers and clients. However, IMHO it's good for anybody, if just for the URL's of important antispam sites and software download sites.
Another "Animal Book" masterpiece here.
This book offers many options for combatting spam on the user and system levels, and makes sure to present the best way to stop spam: by teaching responsible system administration and shutting down open mail relays and public NNTP servers that allow posting.
I have had to admin mail and news servers for clients in the past, and I personally receive about 30 pieces of unwanted email daily. I've been particularly interested in the Procmail-based "friendly sender database", and the book presents the solution in a clear, concise fashion.
If you're tired of receiving more spam than real email, or having to really look hard for high quality, on topic postings in your newsgroups, then I strongly recommend this book.
However, it is good for a historical perspective and it gives an ok overview of the whole concept.
It will not give you answers to what you need to do as much of the spamming techniques have changed since it's publishing.
For example HTML based spam, spam fighing software, and Baysean formula came after this.
It was a book for its time but it has passed.
The book was written in 1998. Parts of it are heavily outdated. Especially one new antispam method that arose in 2003/4.
Yes, ORDB does recommend this book for server administrators with open relay. However, this server administrator found no information in the book that would be helpful in closing...
Heavy on pressenting and summarizing issues without many praticalities. It should be titled - Techniques to use in reducing Spam.
The title of the book, and the introduction make one beleive that you will find all you ever need to know about putting an end to spam.
Though I took copious notes on reading headers, reporting mail fraud, and tracing spammers back to their sources, this book solved my problem with one simple piece of advice.
Stopping Spam by Alan Schwartz and Simson Garfinkel (no, not Simon & Garfunkel), provides the background history on the practice know as "spamming", insight into the...
I bought this book a promptly returned it! It is useless for trying to stop spam. It contains little useful information for actually "Stopping Spam", just lots of...
This book covers the problems with Spam- and what one can do to stop it- quite well. However, it isn't of much use to the system administrator trying to implement anti-relay...
Stopping Spam is a good introduction to the major issues, but despite its claims has little to offer the system administrator.
This is a great book for dealing with all kinds of spam, but it can be especially helpful with the kind of spam that most people find most objectionable: pornography solicitation,...
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