Channel e-mail: A sociotechnical response to spam

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 63-72

  Whitworth, Brian ^a   Liu, Tong ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Channel e mail; Electronic mail; Information filters; Internet; Social computing; Social network services; Sociotechnical design; Software design; Spam; Unsolicited electronic mail

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349111729     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.214     Document Type: Article

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