Wizards

Geek stuff on SOMiS

• Get the header of an HTML file.. Allows you to see the header information supplied by a web server. For example, you can see any error messages, last time the file was changed etc.
• What is your user agent? See how you appear to a web server.

Anti-spam measures

• June 2003 Proposed protection measures for addresses on the web, for UoD
• June 2003 University FAQ on SPAM
• May 2003 Spam report from http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml.
• May 2003 Text to HTML Encoder A solution recommended by the above report. It converts text to HTML codes which could be used to encode email addresses. Its usefulness will be short lived as it is too easy for a robot to read the encoding.
• A short summary of measures to stop the harvesting of addresses.

Email Disclaimers

• FAQ on email disclaimers.

Geek stuff

• http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ Real Time Blackhole (RBL) etc.
• Get the header of an HTML file. Provided by Birmingham University.
• Web Watch from UKOLN. Various web related services.
• http://www.searchwho.com/sw5-spider.html See a page like a spider
• http://www.anonymizer.com Anonymous browsing and if you follow the link form the right had side of "Who are you?" see what you get.
• http://www.privacy.net Privacy issues.
• http://www.netcraft.com/ Netcraft.
• http://spamcop.net/hosttracker.shtml Spam Cop host tracker
• http://samspade.org/ Online tracing tools from Sam Spade
• http://www.abuse.net/lookup.phtml Abuse Net
• http://www.geektools.com/ Geektools
• Search whois from www.mirror.ac.uk
• http://www.arin.net/whois/ Locate owners of IP addresses via WHOIS.
• http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml As above
• Search Domain Names in the UK.
• utrace http://en.utrace.de/ Locate IP addresses and domain names.