Sender and Receiver Addresses as Cues for Anti-Spam Filtering
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چکیده
This study analysed the sender and receiver addresses of 3,417 unsolicited e-mails. Over 60.3% of unsolicited e-mails were found to have an invalid sender address and 92.8% receiver addresses did not appear in the “To” or “CC” headers. The analytical results indicated that e-mail addresses in the header could provide a cue for filtering junk e-mails.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology
دوره 36 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004