Gossip-based protocols provide a simple, scalable, and robust way to disseminate messages in largescale systems. In such protocols, messages are spread in an epidemic manner. Gossiping may take place between nodes using push, pull, or a combination. Push-based systems achieve reasonable latency and high resilience to failures but may impose an unnecessarily large redundancy and overhead on the ...

This paper examines how the Internet's e-mail infrastructure should evolve to better support continuous media (CM) e-mail, such as audio and video. We assert that the problem is not simply a matter of adding the obvious new functionality to user agents (mail readers), such as audio and video capture, but requires the adoption of a new delivery model. We do this by examining the problems that ar...

For addressing the growing problem of junk E-mail on the Internet, this paper proposes an effective E-mail classifying technique. Our work handles E-mail messages as semi-structured documents consisting of a set of fields with predefined semantics and a number of variable length free-text contents. The main contributions of this paper include the following: First, we present a Support Vector Ma...

E-mail is one of the most popular and frequently used ways of communication due to its worldwide accessibility, relatively fast message transfer, and low sending cost. The flaws in the e-mail protocols and the increasing amount of electronic business and financial transactions directly contribute to the increase in e-mail-based threats. Email spam is one of the major problems of the today’s Int...

This study investigated predictors of utilization of the computer-based telemedicine in three rural Missouri counties. Participating health care agencies were given computers and access to an Internet-based workstation that provided e-mail and World Wide Web (WWW) services. Utilization data for e-mail messages sent and WWW pages accessed were collected through proxy servers. A survey was distri...

Exchanging e-mail messages is one of the most popular applications on the Internet after web access and file sharing. Email communication uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) thus allowing it to use the best feature in the internet – adaptability to any available bandwidth. From a quality of service perspective, an unspecified bit rate is sufficient for e-mail as an application. In this...

In this paper, we studied the problem of classifying spam e-mail vs nonspam e-mail under the general frame work of text categorization. First we applied the regular support vector machine to this problem, and tuned up the parameters. We observed that the classification accuracy and generalization ability of the SVM classifier can be controlled, via the bounds, and the ratio of the bounds and ke...

One of the biggest challenges in building effective anti-spam solutions is designing systems to defend against the ever-evolving bag of tricks spammers use to defeat them. Because of this, spam filters that work well today may not work well tomorrow. The adversarial nature of the spam problem makes large, up-to-date, and diverse e-mail corpora critical for the development and evaluation of new ...

As networking technology advances, more advanced message services are provided. Users may have one or more different message accounts and devices. Before sending messages, the sender must make sure which message service the receipt currently uses. Any misjudgement may delay the time when the messages are received. To make users be able to receive messages anytime and anywhere with any kind of d...

We introduce a seamless messaging system for the management of personal messages. The aim of it is to intercept, filter, interpret, and deliver multi-modal messages (voice, fax, and/or e-mail messages). Messages are delivered to the recipient regardless of their target messaging device. Seamless messaging involves finding the person (if urgent) and delivering the information to them on their ce...