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 The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals.

A very nice article on PR agencies & Spamming by them.

Read more at:
http://www.webinknow.com/2007/04/pr_agencies_and.html

Vinay Yadav
http://www.vinayras.com

In my ever growing quest to fight Spam, I have come to know about 2 more great websites which can help us in this regard. This time I read an article in The Economic Times and checked out:

1. http://www.junkbusters.com/
2. https://www.boxbe.com/

Junkbusters not only deals with spam emails, but also with telemarketing calls on your phones. It has some excellant tips on how to trick the telemarkets. It even offers ringtones for download which can trick the caller to believe that your phone is out of service.

In my ongoing research to dig deeper in the world of spam, I have found a few more useful softwares, websites which I want to share with you.

1. http://www.spamhaus.org/ Seems to be a great site. It tell you about spams, how to find them, even lists world's most successful spammers(there were a few from India too). Have some good tips to prevent spams. Have a blacklist database etc etc. Check out if you really want to understand the spamming in and out.

Spamcop.net is a very good site for fighting ever growing menace of Spams.

They have 4 services:

1. Reporting Spams - You can report spams sent to you and they contact server admins, ISPs where spams are originating and in somecases responsible ISPs block spams, so it helps blocking spams at source.

2. FREE BLOCKING LIST - They provide a DNS-based Blocking List which ISPs can use with their mailserver and get safe and effective spam filtering for free.

I'm a huge advocate of using command line utilities to automate mundane everyday tasks. One of them which I am forced to do daily is clear my SPAM folder in my gmail account.

I noticed a new version of the Perl CPAN module
Mail::WebMail::Gmail and I jumped at the opportunity. Just around 15 lines of Perl code, and I can now clear my SPAM folder quickly.