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contains site-related information about the Campaign to Stop Junk Email
Web site. It includes administrivia like recent changes, press clippings,
awards and merit badges, and link-backs. This page is currently under
construction.
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Recent
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Campaign to Stop Junk Email site in the News Media reports about
this site
How
you can help join the fight
Siblings-in-Arms
Links reciprocal anti-junk email sites
Merit
Badges
Recent
Changes
Complete
site reorganization underway [May 2000]
Updated
Junk Email News new with item
about the tragic screwing of consumers by the Nevada legislature, and
Worldnet's mail problems as a result of junk emailers. Also added link
in Action Items to Tigerden's
excellent round-up of junk email legislation. [24 July 1997]
Updated
"Strategy Shift" section with latest
legislative proposals, including information about inferior third junk
email bill in US Senate. [4 July 1997]
Updated
Junk Email News new with articles
about Cyber Promotions latest troubles. [4 July 1997]
Updated
Junk Email News with link to news.com
article reporting that AGIS' junk mailing customers continue to
spam despite supposed agreement to stop as of last Saturday, 24 May.
[31 May 1997]
Updated
Action Items with links to
full text of the The Netizens Protection Act of 1997, which will ban
junk email. [30 May 1997]
Added endorsement
of the The
Netizens Protection Act of 1997 (H.R. 1748) in the Strategy
Shift introduction. [30 May 1997]
Updated
Action Items with links to
full text of the The Netizens Protection Act of 1997, which will ban
junk email. [30 May 1997]
Started
updating "Allies" in Other
Resources section section [22 May 1997]
Added "Strategy
Shift" section [22 May 1997]
Added Action
Items for upcoming and pending US Federal legislative efforts to
ban and regulate junk email! [22 May 1997]
Added huge
backlog of new Siblings-In-Arms
[21 May 1997]
Updated
Illegal Activities and
Resources sections with
new address for the National Fraud Information Center (fraudinfo@psinet.com)
and contact at FTC (now bbroder@ftc.gov) [18 April 1997]
Changed
to a white background, after I finally gave up on getting the texture
light enough. I want everyone to be able to learn how to fight junk
email, even people with crappy monitors. Visit the main
page to see the offending background.[11 April 1997]
It turns
out UUNET prefers you send junk email complaints a non-standard address
(see Abuse Addresses.[11
April 1997]
Added Action
Item about New York State Assembly bill to outlaw junk email. [11
April 1997]
Added IRS
reporting address to Illegal
Activities section for junk emails that claim the sender has acquired
great wealth from their pyramid scheme. [17 March 1997]
Policy
Change I no longer recommend
responding directly to the junk emailer's message at all.
[17 March 1997]
Added analysis
of the bogus censorship
defense sometimes presented by junk email apologists. [24 February
1997]
Acknowledged
that getting paid to have sex isn't always illegal, as I claimed in
my junk email example response.
[1 February 1997]
Created
separate Prevention page and updated
prevention information. [25 January 1997]
- "'What
makes junk e-mail so irritating to people is that most of the costs
are borne by the recipients,' says John C. Rivard, a computer professional
who maintains a scrupulous Web page devoted to the 'anti-spam' campaign."
- The
Bergen Record,; "Computer
users declaring war on junk e-mail" by Robert Gebeloff, June 8,
1997
- "For
more technical help rooting up the sources of spam, see Internet consultant
John C. Rivard's Stop Junk Email site, which includes
an excellent step-by-step guide to tracing spam...."
- C|Net,
Features; "How
to: Stop Spam" by Michelle V. Rafter, December 19, 1996
- "There's
been an explosion of anti-junk-email sites, and experts say it reflects
the frustration... of Netizens about junk email. One site, Stop
Junk Email offers tips such as "stay calm, get mad, and fire."
- C|Net,
News.com; "Junk
email victims fight back" by Jeff Pelline, November 12, 1996
- "The
Stop Junk E-mail Web site is a good resource for learning more
about the dynamics of spamming. It includes a frequently asked questions
area covering the hows and whys of junk E-mail and ways to keep the
spammers away."
- PC
Week Online Net
Resources section; "No
spams: Online guides to thwarting junk E-mail" by Jeff Frentzen,
Monday, October 14, 1996
- "There
are sites on the World Wide Web that offer plenty of other suggestions
from computer-savvy folks about dealing with junk e-mail. One
of the best is run by JCR Design and Consulting at http://www.mcs.com/~jcr/index.html,
where a detailed account of the phenomenon is available."
- The
Chicago Tribune Binary
Beat section; "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam...or Just Block Junk" by James
Coates (online version no longer available), Sunday, September 30, 1996
- "John
Rivard of Chicago created a "No Junk Mail" symbol and posted
it on a Web site for his JCR Design & Consulting company.
He said he hoped that visitors to his site would post the symbol on
their own home pages to make known their opposition to bulk e-mail."
- The
New York Times Cybertimes
section; "AOL's
War on Junk E-Mail Escalates, but to Little Avail" by David J. Wallace
(free registration required to access full text online), Thursday, September
26, 1996
- "Like
many people who have used e-mail for a long time to exchange messages
with friends, family and colleagues, Chicago graphic artist John C.
Rivard fears today's relatively minor annoyance of 10 unwanted messages
could become tomorrow's 10,000 as the Internet grows....
'Junk e-mail is a growing irritation, but it is rapidly becoming a serious
problem as the volume continues to grow,' said Rivard, who in February
established the "Stop Junk E-mail" Web site (http://www.mcs.com/(tilde)jcr/junkemail.html).
'It seems to be growing exponentially. The sheer number of unwanted
e-mail messages will soon be overwhelming people's e-mail boxes, clogging
legitimate mail and wasting time and money.'"
- The
Chicago Sun Times Business
section; "Rising tide of `junk' e-mail threatens to swamp Internet"
by Howard Wolinski (online version no longer available), Tuesday, September
10, 1996
Review/criticism
awards that have been presented to the Campaign to Stop Junk Email page.We're
honored.
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