FAQs about our site:

Q: OK, I'll bite. Why the heck does the date at the top of all of the pages say that today is September <somebignumber>, 1993?

A: If you know about the Endless September, you will understand. Briefly, for those that don't: That's today's Endless September date, the number of days since September, 1993, when AOL intruded itself on the internet.

Other FAQs:

The following FAQ documents have not all been reviewed and verified, and their content may or may not coincide with that of the author(s) of stopspam.org - but then, we never claimed to have the only correct answers, now did we?

• Help! I've Been Spammed! What do I do? FAQ (local, by Chris Lewis)
• MLM vs Pyramid Schemes/Scams FAQ (local, by Ken Lucke)
• Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) FAQ (local, by Ken Lucke)
• ALt.SpamFAQ/Figuring out fake E-Mail & Posts (off-site, by Ken Hollis)
• Cancel Messages: Frequently Asked Questions (off-site, by Tim Skirvin)
• Usenet Spam Thresholds FAQ (mirrored, local, by Tim Skirvin)
• Usenet Bincancel FAQ (off-site, by Shaun Davis-Gluyas)
• Usenet NoCeM FAQ (off-site, by CancelMoose)
• Godwin's Law (off-site, by Tim Skirvin)
• SPAM-L Mailing List FAQ (off-site, byDoug Muth)
• Understanding news.admin.net-abuse.email (off-site, by Dave Farmer)
• FAQ: Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It (off-site, by Joel Furr)
• Newsgroup Care Cancel Cookbook (off-site, by Rosalind Hengeveld)
• Address Munging FAQ (off-site, by WD Baseley)
• Another news.admin.net-abuse.email FAQ (off-site, by Steve Atkins)
• CAUCE Quick FAQ (off-site, by CAUCE members)
• The Email Abuse FAQ (off-site, by WD Baseley)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Spam (off-site, by Alan Thew, et al.)
• How do Spammers Harvest Email Addresses? (off-site, by Uri Raz)
• How to Interpret Email Headers (off-site, by )
• Stop Spam FAQ (off-site, by )
• Teergrubing FAQ (off-site, by <unknown>)
• Your First Post To NANAE (off-site, by a voluminous group of contributors)
• The Net Abuse FAQ (anyone know where this one went???)
• What is Usenet? (off-site, by Salzenberg, Spafford and Moraes)
• What is Usenet? A second opinion (off-site, by Vielmetti)
• A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community (off-site, by Von Rospach, et al)
• Rules for posting to Usenet (off-site, by Horton, Spafford & Moraes)
• Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette (off-site, by Templeton et al)
• Junk (Snail) Mail FAQ (off-site, by Chris Hibbert)