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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Spam and Anti-Spam Measures: A Look at Potential Impacts |
| University of Technology, Australia |
| The proliferation of unrestricted Internet access has brought the community spam which has become a serious |
| problem costing companies billions of dollars per annum. Typical anti-spam measures, such as filtering and |
| blocking techniques, exist but focus on solving the spam problem on the message transpor-tation level. Using such |
| techniques may have impacts beyond the realm of spam-filters and block lists. In this paper we argue that |
| implementing typical anti-spam measures means that computers are assigned the power to assess legitimacy of |
| email. This means, for example, that legitimate email might be re-jected because the sender used the 'wrong' mail |
| server or the wrong terminology. In this paper, we de-scribe some of the core problems and discuss alternatives. |
| Keywords: spam, spam filter, blacklists, information filtering, legitimacy, solicitation |
ISSN
1535-07-03
Unless otherwise indicated, this paper has undergone blind external review by three or more reviewers.
Types of Papers: A Best Paper, Regular Paper, Short Paper, Informal Paper,
Unrefereed Panel Paper
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