We believe this paper is the first extensive user-study of whitelisting email addresses. While whitelists are common in social networking and instant messaging (e.g., buddylists),...
We describe a plugin extension to the Thunderbird Mail Client to support standardized evaluation of multiple spam filters on private mail streams. Researchers need not view or han...
E-mail is one of the most common communication methods among people on the Internet. However, the increase of e-mail misuse/abuse has resulted in an increasing volume of spam e-ma...
Generally a content based spam filter works on words and phrases of email text and if it finds offensive content it gives that email a numerical value (depending on the content). A...
Typically, spam filters are built on the assumption that the characteristics of e-mails in the training set is identical to those in individual users’ inboxes on which it will b...
By feeding personal e-mails into the training set, personalized content-based spam filters are believed to classify e-mails in higher accuracy. However, filters trained by both sp...