Exploiting transport-level characteristics of spam

5th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beverly, Robert ^a   Sollins, Karen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRONIC MAIL;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONGESTION WINDOW; CONTENT FILTER; DISCRIMINATORY POWER; FALSE NEGATIVES; FLOW PROPERTIES; RETRANSMISSIONS; SPAM DETECTION;

INTERNET;

EID: 77954873991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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