Sam Spade (software)


Sam Spade was the name of a Windows software tool designed to assist in tracking down sources of e-mail spam. It was also the name of a free web service that provides access to similar online tools. The Sam Spade utility was authored by Steve Atkins in 1997. It is named after the fictional character Sam Spade.

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The main features were:
The last fully functional version of the website was available 2004-02-26.
Since then it experienced various outage problems due to "blackholing of SamSpade.org by several RIRs and general heavy usage." and is no longer online. The URL currently redirects to https://tools.wordtothewise.com/ which contains a similar set of web tools under the brand name "wiseTools" and hosted by Atkins's email software business Word to The Wise