DMTP: Controlling spam through message delivery differentiation

Computer Networks

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2616-2630

  Duan, Zhenhai ^a   Dong, Yingfei ^b   Gopalan, Kartik ^c  

^a Florida State University   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

DMTP; Email spam; SMTP; Unwanted internet traffic

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DIFFERENTIATED MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL (DMTP); REAL-TIME BLACKLISTS; SMTP-BASED EMAIL SYSTEMS; UNWANTED INTERNET TRAFFIC;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 34247595861     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2006.11.015     Document Type: Article

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