How much did shutting down McColo help?

6th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Clayton, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS;

BOTNETS; E-MAIL SPAM; UNITED KINGDOM;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84904817958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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