A formal approach towards assessing the effectiveness of anti-spam procedures

G. Schryen, in: 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006.

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Spam e-mails have become a serious technological and economic problem. So far we have been reasonably able to resist spam e-mails and use the Internet for regular communication by deploying complementary anti-spam approaches. However, if we are to avert the danger of losing the Internet email service as a valuable, free, and worldwide medium of open communication, anti-spam activities should be performed more systematically than is done in current, mainly heuristic, anti-spam approaches. A formal framework within which the modes of spam delivery, anti-spam approaches, and their effectiveness can be investigated, may encourage a shift in methodology and pave the way for new, holistic anti-spam approaches. This paper presents a model of the Internet e-mail infrastructure as a directed graph and a deterministic finite automaton, and draws on automata theory to formally derive the modes of spam delivery possible. Finally the effectiveness of anti-spam approaches in terms of coverage of spamming modes is assessed.
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Schryen G. A formal approach towards assessing the effectiveness of anti-spam procedures. In: 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. ; 2006.
Schryen, G. (2006). A formal approach towards assessing the effectiveness of anti-spam procedures. In 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
@inproceedings{Schryen_2006, title={A formal approach towards assessing the effectiveness of anti-spam procedures}, booktitle={39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences}, author={Schryen, Guido}, year={2006} }
Schryen, Guido. “A Formal Approach towards Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Spam Procedures.” In 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006.
G. Schryen, “A formal approach towards assessing the effectiveness of anti-spam procedures,” in 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006.
Schryen, Guido. “A Formal Approach towards Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Spam Procedures.” 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2006.
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