Issues when designing filters in messaging systems

Computer Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-101

  Palme, Jacob ^a   Karlgren, Jussi ^a   Pargman, Daniel ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bulletin board systems; Computer conferencing; Electronic mail; Filters; Information retrieval systems; Mail filtering; Message handling systems; Netnews; Usenet news

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

ASYNCHRONOUS CONFERENCING SYSTEMS; BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS; COMPUTER CONFERENCING; FILTERS; GROUP COMMUNICATION TOOLS; MAIL FILTERING; MESSAGE FILTERING; MESSAGE HANDLING SYSTEM; NETNEWS; USENET NEWS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030074061     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-3664(96)01049-3     Document Type: Note

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