If 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
From Library Journal
Spam?or junk E-mail?drives some folks completely nuts, and they will eat this book up. Schwartz and Garfinkel start with a definition and history of spam and a discussion of the players and how protocols work. They then take up dealing with spam through filtering and dealing with Usenet spam. They also discuss how Internet service providers can manage spam and how community action has been and will continue to be the best deterrent. What is perhaps most interesting about this book is how it demonstrates that the line between managing spam and freedom of expression and censorship is almost nonexistent. for general collections.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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