Ever wish that you had a resource that could tell you what to do about spam, why spammers spam, the history of spam, how to stop making it lucrative for spammers, and, most important for the IT professional, how to get your users to stop enabling spam?

Well, then you’re in luck, because Danny Goodman’s new Spam Wars, just published by SelectBooks, Inc., is the book for you.

Aunty is betting that even the most seasoned of you, who remember the days of the ‘net before there was an ‘inter,’ will be impressed with Goodman’s vast array of knowledge and facts, and how smoothly he puts them all together in one easy read.

It’s all here. The history. The drama. The pathology. And the nuts-and-bolts “how-tos,” from how to read a header to how to batten down your hatches.

Now, Aunty mentioned this book to her Windows users readership because, even though it covers highly technical information, it does so in well-lubricated plain English, and it provides users with a bit of a clue-by-4 as to exactly why spammers continue to spam: because users make it good for them. And this is exactly the reason that you should not only read this book, but make it required reading for every manager in every department of your company, along with the CTO and CEO his or herself… [Continued]