The Effects of Anti-Spam Methods on Spam Mail

We provide a model to study the effects of three methods of fighting spam mail, namely (1) increasing the cost of mailing messages, (2) filters, and (3) a do-not-spam registry, on the number of spam messages that users receive, and on the efficiency of the internet (measured by the total number of spam messages spammers send).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CEAS
• Authors: Eilon Solan, Eran Reshef
• Keywords: CEAS 2006, Internet Technology, Spam Mail, Spam Messages, Spam Messages Spammers