About Spamnation

About this site

'spamnation.info' is a semi-random assortment of information about spam. It began life as a subsection of my personal home page, and then moved to a site of its own. Most of the statistics and summaries are drawn from samples collected on a set of domains that I manage.

In case it isn't obvious, I don't like spam. The purpose of this site, as much as it can be said to have one, is to collect information that might be of use to people who are trying to reduce their own spam load or protect the systems that they administer against spam. My hope is that some of this information might be of use to anyone who is researching spam, and might possibly lead to more effective defences or even successful prosecutions of spammers.

The name 'spamnation' can be interpreted however you want. It can be an exclamation associated with finding your inbox full of junk: "Oh, spamnation!". It could be the state of being spammed, much as 'damnation' is the state of being damned (but 'eternal spamnation' is really too cruel a punishment to wish on anyone). Or it can be the virtual nation of spam recipients: the 'spam nation', as it were.

A longer diatribe on the motivations behind the site can be read in my first blog post.