The following additional resources are available to help combat spam.
Industry Best Practices/ Codes of Conduct
- Online Trust Alliance Marketing and Unsubscribe Best Practices
- Operation Safety-Net: Best Practices to Address Online, Mobile and Telephony Threats (M3AAWG and UCENet)
- M3AAWG Mobile Messaging Best Practices for Service Providers – updated August 2015
- Anti-Phishing Best Practices for ISPs and Mailbox Providers (M3AAWG and APWG) – Version 2.01, June 2015
- M3AAWG Best Practices to Address Online and Mobile Threats
- M3AAWG Sender Best Communications Practices
- M3AAWG Vetting Best Common Practices
- M3AAWG Best Common Practices for Mitigating Abuse of Web Messaging Systems
- IETF, RFC 6449: Complaint Feedback Loop Operational Recommendations
- M3AAWG Code of Conduct
- NIST Special Publication 800-177 Trustworthy Email
Technical Information
- M3AAWG Methods for Sharing Dynamic IP Address Space Information with Others
- M3AAWG Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group Position on Email Appending
- M3AAWG Managing Port 25 for Residential or Dynamic IP Space Benefits of Adoption and Risks of Inaction
General Resources and Spam Data
- The History of Spam (2014)
- Mobile SPAM in India (2013)
- The Economics of Spam (2012)
- Cisco Annual Security Report (2015)
- Trustwave Spam Statistics (2015)
- Microsoft Security and Intelligence Report (2015)
- IETF Work Related to Spam (2014)
Resources for Governments and Policymakers
- Collaborating to Eliminate Spam and Nuisance Communications (2017)
- The Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand: Electronic Messaging Compliance Unit (2015)
- Canada Spam Report and Canada Act to prevent unsolicited messages on the Internet (2004)
- Canadian Spam Act and Canadian Wireless and Internet Spam Act (2010)
- Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) Training
- What Are the Measures Used by European Providers to Reduce the Amount of Spam Received by Their Customers? (2009)
- ITU Survey on Anti-Spam Legislation Worldwide (2005)
- Spam Issues in Developing Countries (2005)
- Policy Brief: Spam
- Policy Brief: Botnets
Best Practices for Governments and Policymakers
- OECD Task Force on Spam (2005)
- Regulating Spam EU Directive (2004)