Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 25-33

  Goodman, Joshua ^a   Cormack, Gordon V ^b   Heckerman, David ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS (ESP); INBOX; SPAM FILTERING SOFTWARE; SPAM MASSAGES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

SPAMMING;

EID: 33846700978     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1216016.1216017     Document Type: Article

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