How good are our weapons in the spam wars?

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-30

  Hoanga, Bogdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

RATE THROTTLING; SPAM CONTROL; SPAM FILTERING; SPAM GENERATION;

SPAMMING;

EID: 33645222306     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MTAS.2006.1607720     Document Type: Article

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