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• - Step by step explanation of the email redirection technique to prevent spam from reaching to the end user.
  
• - Suggestions for how to filter spam.
  
• - Effort to educate consumers. Includes press releases and participation information.
  
• - Universal opt-out by domain list; created as a "convenient opt-out" measure per the CAN-SPAM act.
  
• - Offers software to prevent messenger service pop-up spam.
  
• - Offers an ID number to replace email signature which can be used to avoid disclosing email addresses in case of harvesting.
  
• - An automated graph theoretic method for identifying individual users' trusted networks of friends in cyberspace. [PDF/PostScript]
  
• - Spam related news, articles, reviews, downloads and forums.
  
• - Free service to encode the email addresses in your website so that they cannot be gathered by email robots.
  
• - Offers services to businesses by acting as an agent between senders and recipients to prevent spam and other insecure email. Includes links to news on spam.
  
• - Twelve ways spammers obtain email address. Includes links to websites explaining how to trace spammers down.
  
• - Online tool to munge and obfuscate email addresses to prevent email harvesting. Murge includes link text and tooltip text.
  
• - Suggestions on how to choose an email address and how to disclose it with care on the web.
  
• - A consulting company for businesses and governments promoting do-not-email registries. Includes spam news and articles.
  
• - Register your wish not to receive unsolicited e-mail or spam.
  
• - Offers a few simple suggestions to avoid spam.
  
• - Ciphers email addresses to foil spambots.
  
• - Offers a service to munge email addresses using flash to prevent harvesting.
  
• - Hides email addresses from the spambots by using encryption and Javascript.
  
• - Generates fake data to give to e-mail harvesting robots.
  
• - Prevent e-mail siphons from harvesting your e-mail address by not using the commercial "@" character when displaying your e-mail address on a Web page; use a graphical "@" instead. Examples in Perl, OpenACS, PHP, and ColdFusion.
  
• - What to do when your computer is used to relay spam.
  
• - How to avoid, detect and harass spambots. Spambots are programs that extract email addresses from web pages, which are then used as targets for spam.
  
• - A service that allows you to generate new e-mail aliases to give to websites that want contact information.
  
• - Provides users with up to 100 disposable email addresses mapped to a single inbox and a web-based email account.
  
• - Offers free disposable email addresses redirected to your mail email account, valid for 24 hours. Supports webmail and RSS feed.
  
• - Ciphers email addresses to foil spambots.
  
• - Story of antispam activist's travails dealing with one determined spamming business.
  
• - Free e-mail forwarding accounts. Forwarding address disappears automatically after fixed time period and mail is bounced. Spammers won't be able to reach you.
  
• - Offers advice under the categories of ISP filtering, services, software, sundries, hints and tips.
  
• - How to spam-block ("munge") your email address.
  
• - A ready-to-run SMTP relay honeypot, written in pure Java.
  
• - A real world example of a dormant Internet domains re-registration and activation with pointers on how to deal with the flood of spam that started to flow to that domain.
  
• - Offers simple and user challenge JavaScript based email encoder to prevent email harvesting.
  
• - Provides disposable email addresses to discourage spamming.
  
• - Neil Gunton describes his experiences with software programs browsing websites looking for email addresses, and the techniques he developed to stop them.
  
• - Tips for configuring Eudora to block spam.
  
• - Use disposable email addresses to communicate with businesses that you do not fully trust, then delete them if you get spam.
  
• - Offers web-based access to temporary public mail accounts that are created on the fly as mail comes in.
  
• - Online spam reduction service. Requires registration to test their service.
  
• - Prevent e-mail siphons from harvesting your e-mail addresses by separating the address from the Web page while still providing a way for users to click a link and have it open their local mailer. Examples in Perl, OpenACS, PHP, and ColdFusion.
  
• - Information about fighting and reducing spam. Links to major related sites and news.
  
• - Maintains a list of opt-out addresses.
  
• - Provides spam filtering and virus protection for corporate customers.
  
• - Describes the software spammers use to harvest email addresses and send spam; includes simple strategies for preventing an address from being misused.
  
• - Explanations on bandwidth protection, spam filter installation, email address concealing, asking spammers to stop spam and joining an anti-spam group.
  
• - Learn about best practices in spam prevention and eradication.
  
• - Private email address with your own domain and unlimited aliases prevents spammers from obtaining real email address.
  
• - Includes FAQ about spam, popular get-rich-quick scams, proxypot information and black list of spammers.
  
• - An automated page generator that create long lists of fake email addresses to poison the spammer's database.
  
• - Offering anti-spam program and disposable email addresses.
  
• - Transforms ascii email addresses into their equivalent decimal entity through the use of Character Entities.
  
• - Step by step explanation with screenshots of how to set filters.
  
• - Offers disposable email addresses, to reduce the amount of spam in your inbox.
  
• - Software which stops spam by scrambling email addresses on Web pages. Visitors to a site see an address, but address-harvesting bots don't. Mac and Windows versions available for free trial and for purchase.
  
• - FAQ on spam including ways to reduce the flow of junk email or become spam free.
  
• - Offers 128-bit encryption DES algorithm to prevent email harvesting.
  
• - Explains how to stop web pop-up spam advertising in Windows Messenger.
  
• - Offers anonymous email forwarding addresses.
  
• - An intensive study essentially discussing spam-filtering techniques.
  
• - Several methods are described.