SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval on the web
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Using latent semantic indexing to filter spam
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Fighting the spam wars: A remailer approach with restrictive aliasing
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An empirical study of spam traffic and the use of DNS black lists
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Communications of the ACM - Transforming China
MailRank: using ranking for spam detection
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Email prioritization: reducing delays on legitimate mail caused by junk mail
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A survey of emerging approaches to spam filtering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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An empirical study of unsolicited commercial/bulk e-mail traffic collected from various spam traps (honeypots) is summarized and discussed. Some of these spam traps were created specifically for this study and thus could be monitored since their initialization. This allows for a thorough analysis of the development of current spam traffic on the Internet, quantitatively as well as qualitatively. On the basis of the data collected over a period of eight months, several important conclusions can be drawn about the current nature of the spam phenomenon, about threats and risks caused by spam with respect to communication, privacy and security aspects on the Internet, and thus also about economical aspects. In particular, strategies used by spammers for collecting e-mail address information on the Internet for the purpose of spamming, common behavior of spammers, as well as the validity of some widespread conjectures about spam are analyzed.