Pricing electronic mail to solve the problem of spam

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 195-223

  Kraut, Robert E ^a   Sunder, Shyam ^b   Telang, Rahul ^c   Morris, James ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FEES AND CHARGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPAMMING;

E-MAIL PRICING SYSTEM; FLAT RATE PRICING; VARIABLE RATE PRICING;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 23844490219     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci2001&2_7     Document Type: Article

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