Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach

Vries de, Wouter Willem and Moreira Moura, Giovane Cesar and Pras, Aiko (2010) Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach. In: 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop on Networked Services and Applications - Engineering, Control and Management, 28-30 June 2010, Trondheim, Norway.

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Abstract:	Spam comprises approximately 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail traffic on the Internet nowadays, and it is a problem far from being solved. The losses caused by spam are estimated to reach up to $\$$ 87 billion yearly. When fighting spam, most of the proposals focus on the receiver-side and are usually resource-intensive in terms of processing requirements. In this paper we present an approach to address these shortcomings: we propose to i) filter outgoing e-mail on the sender side and (ii) use lightweight techniques to check whether a message is spam or not. Moreover, we have evaluated the accuracy of these techniques in detecting spam on the sender side with two different data sets, obtained at a Dutch hosting provider. The results obtained with this approach suggest we can significantly reduce the amount of spam on the Internet by performing simple checks at the sender-side.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2010 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72174
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13971-0_18
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