Email – a bellwether records system

Characterizing Botnets from Email Spam Records

We develop new techniques to map botnet membership using traces of spam email. To group bots into botnets we look for multiple bots participating in the same spam email campaign. We have applied our technique against a trace of spam email from Hotmail Web mail services. In this trace, we have successfully identified hundreds of botnets. We present new findings about botnet sizes and behavior wh...

Bellwether 19, Winter 1986

FASIL Email Summarisation System

Email summarisation presents a unique set of requirements that are different from general text summarisation. This work describes the implementation of an email summarisation system for use in a voice-based Virtual Personal Assistant developed for the EU FASiL Project. Evaluation results from the first integrated version of the project are presented.

Use of SRV Records for Locating Email Submission/Access Services

This specification describes how SRV records can be used to locate email services. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extra...

Studies of Automated Collection of Email Records Technical

There are few quantitative techniques for directly measuring email use patterns. This paper describes an automated tool that, with a user’s permission, reads their mail database to create a one-time snapshot and gathers relevant structural and behavioral information. We successfully collected important statistics about message threading, folders, and mail volume. Our techniques are relevant to ...