Technical spam books, my quest for knowledge.

"naughty jinx" <[email protected]>
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I hope this is the right list to post this to,

I have been reading up on spam books, some of them seem to be intresting, 
while others kinda lacking. I thought i would share my findings with the 
list, since good technical information on spam is kinda hard to find in one 
place.

I was after a book with detailed technical information used by spammers, not 
trival stuff like open proxy servers and formmail, because we all know how 
those work. I wanted to know more about the filter evasion side of things, 
how messages are constructed and what work goes into it.

I started off with Spam Kings, it was cheap and had some decent reviews, but 
the content was more 'general' about spammers.. not really technical at all, 
learning factor of 0 for me.

I then moved onto "Spam Inside The Spam Cartel", by syngress 
(http://www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=3130). Although the book reads a 
little rough and costed a bit more, the content was perfect for what i 
needed, so i must share this book with the list.
Its seriously a good read and goes well into the details of spam filters and 
filter evasion. Also covers techniques such as AS hijacking, handy since 
there is not much published information on this. Its not written from the 
point of 'stopping spam', but more written by a spammer talking about how to 
defeat spam filters. So you really get to see spam from the 'other side of 
the fence'. Really intresting since the book goes into language aspects of 
spam and composing messages that are close to unfilterable.

I read the book cover to cover and not only was happy with it, but even 
learned a fair bit :)
Anyone else suggest any good spam books?

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