spam
RSS spamCIO Jury: Spam drives UK bosses to despair
News Frustrated IT bosses claim the never-ending waves of spam hitting inboxes and the lack of any imminent solution to the problem is undermining the effectiveness of email as a useful communication tool. [13 Oct 2004]
Spam will die out in three years
News Unsolicited email is an issue which affects us all - but there is light at the end of the tunnel for users inundated with spam. Spam currently accounts for around 50 per cent of all email traffic... [11 Jun 2003]
Spam shame of the UK exposed
News The UK is still dogged by the persistent problem of spam email and for all the government rhetoric there have been few real signs of any effective legislative easing of the situation.silicon.com can now reveal this is... [02 Jun 2005]
Spam: Use Sender ID or we'll junk you, says Microsoft
News Microsoft is to wage war on spam by pushing for all emails to have Sender ID or risk being identified as junk mail by Hotmail and MSN. Around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those... [23 Jun 2005]
Spam soaring and viruses a constant threat
News Volumes of spam email are continuing to soar month-on-month and the levels of virus-infected emails remain constant and high. According to figures from email security firm MessageLabs, spam now accounts... [11 Jun 2004]
Spam: How much do we get?
News A massive 96 per cent of us have received spam emails - or to put it another way, a lucky one in 25 email users are free from the inbox clutter of unsolicited email. A survey by silicon.com to coincide with the launch of... [11 Jun 2003]
Spam: Enough is enough
Comment After years of tolerating the annoyance of spam, companies and ISPs are starting to take the problem of unsolicited email seriously. ISPs have been urged to act in their own interests to cut out junk mail, with... [24 Oct 2002]
Spam Filtering With Several Novel Bayesian Classifiers
White Paper This paper presents spam filtering with three novel bayesian classification methods: Aggregating One-Dependence Estimators (AODE), Hidden Naïve Bayes (HNB), Locally Weighted learning with Naïve Bayes (LWNB). [01 Jul 2009]
Spam? It's enough to make you switch ISPs
News Spam is becoming such a bugbear for internet users they're now prepared to swap their ISP to get away from the nuisance of junk mail. According to research from analyst house Gartner, given the choice between two ISPs of... [09 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Spam
Cheat Sheet Spam is completely unsolicited mail, ranging from adverts for Viagra and porn sites to offers of cheap loans and murky pyramid-type schemes. AOL's software thought the emails were spam. Obviously a lot... [03 Jan 2002]
Unsolicited Commercial Email (Spam): An Exploratory Understanding Using Stakeholder Analysis
White Paper The growth in the use of email marketing has been accompanied by an enormous increase in the amount of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), popularly known as spam. Based on critical characteristics of UCE, they propose a... [13 Oct 2008]
Spam busters: 'You're either with us or against us'
News Five of the biggest names on the front line of the anti-spam battle - AOL, Brightmail, Microsoft, Sendmail and Yahoo! have this week all declared their support for ID authentication systems as the way to finally defeat... [25 Feb 2004]
Spam doesn't kill appetite for email
News Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for email among US workers, according to a new study on email use in the workplace. A full 52 per cent of respondents surveyed in a Pew Internet & American Life Project study reported... [09 Dec 2002]
Spam showing little sign of abating
News Two factors are combining to ensure that combating spam will continue to be a near-impossible task - the fact that companies are happy to continue flouting anti-spam legislation and the fact that a lack... [23 Apr 2004]
Spam law will make problem worse
News The UK government's anti-spam crackdown is likely to fail at tackling the problem of unsolicited email and will help spammers look as if they are acting legitimately, according to a legal expert. Clive Gringras, partner... [04 Jul 2003]
