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| Spam: the evolution of a nuisance: The author explains how spam has become a nuisance in the recent past as the cost of purchasing larger mail servers and storage systems to cope up with the inboxes attacked with spam and the cost of having labor to ease the networks overloaded by spam. The author throws light on the different ways in which spam has been tried to counteract with, but failed. The author's opinion is that complete protection of spam cannot be ascertained using one solution provided. In his opinion self help is the best help and user awareness can be immensely helpful in protection against spam. Author: Stephen Hinde Reference: Elsevier Ltd, 2003.
Experiments to identify the causes of spam: The paper discusses how spam is generated. The different methodologies used by spammers to gain e-mail information. It describes the results of an experiment conducted by setting up different e-mail accounts and observing the spam received by these accounts for a period of nine weeks. It also categorizes the different varieties of spam received and comes up with results in the increase of spam and Financial spam in particular. Author: Tanzila Ahmed and Charles Oppenheim Reference: Aslib proceedings: New Information Perspectives Vol 58. No. 3, 2006.
Workload models of spam and legitimate e-mails: An experiment was conducted in a large university in Brazil accommodating almost 22 thousand students. The anonymous SMTP logs of incoming mails were collected and analyzed in several ways to characterize the spam infected e-mail workload. The paper concentrates on effective spam detection techniques to build better workload models to stop spam and determining the impact of spam on the aggregate workload. The research in this paper is based on the fact that authentic e-mails are based on social bilateral relationships whereas spam mails are usually unilateral spammer driven. Author: Luiz Henrique Gomes, Cristiano Cazita, Jussara M. Almeida, Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr. Reference: Elsevier Ltd. , November 2006.
An analysis of the tools used for the generation and prevention of spam: The author tries to explain the different methods of spam generation which are evolving and the loads of software and mailing lists available online which could be bought by advertising companies for increasing spam generation. The author explains the different ways in which spammers write HTML codes to trick the anti spam tools to classify spam to be legitimate and thus causing spam to pass through anti spam tools undetected. The author expresses serious concern on the problem of growing spam and encourages the countries to pass laws to curb spam soon. Author: Allister Cournane, Ray Hunt Reference: Computers & Security , 2004.
Issues with Spam: This paper suggests some innovative ways which could be implemented to reduce spam. The paper discusses the CAN-SPAM act of 2003 which was passed to prevent spam, but the author points out the discrepancies in this law and the loop holes which are being used by spammers to work around with this act. The author also explains some new ideas being introduced such as applying some tax on each spam message which would make spam expensive for the spammers. They also could use some interactive methods which would demand human interaction for every message sent. Author: Galen A. Grimes Reference: Computer Fraud and Security.
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