Since spam occurs primarily because it is so cheap to send, a proposed set of solutions require that senders pay some cost in order to send spam, making...
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rejecting all spam email (false negatives) – and the associated costs in time, effort, and cost of wrongfully obstructing good mail. Anti-spam techniques...
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Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising...
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Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, refers to unsolicited messages sent in bulk via email. The term originates from...
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Proof of work (redirect from Proof of work system)
users but would impose a significant cost on spammers attempting to send bulk messages. Hashcash's system was based on the concept of finding a hash value...
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cost, a person can use the internet to send an email message to thousands of people. These unsolicited junk electronic mails came to be called 'Spam'...
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Attention economy (section E-mail spam)
IBM Systems Journal. 41 (4): 759–766. doi:10.1147/sj.414.0759. S2CID 195718575. Retrieved 1 November 2020. Lueg, C. (2003). "Spam and anti-spam measures:...
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Hashcash (category Anti-spam)
Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks. Hashcash was proposed in 1997 by Adam Back and described more...
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Email marketing (category Spamming)
Limited (2012) and Cellar master Wines Pty Limited (2013). The "Canada Anti-Spam Law" (CASL) went into effect on July 1, 2014. CASL requires an explicit...
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Tarpit (networking) (category Anti-spam)
considered to battle bulk-spam at one time, was to mandate a small fee for every submitted mail. By introducing such artificial cost, with negligible impact...
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Email hub (section DNS Based Mail Hub)
MUA (mail user agent) access. Examples could include dedicated anti-SPAM appliances, anti-virus engines running on dedicated hardware, email gateways and...
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Email (redirect from Email system)
CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and similar laws elsewhere had some impact, and a number of effective anti-spam techniques now largely mitigate the impact of spam by...
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Daniel Balsam (category Anti-spam)
retaliatory. Anti-spam techniques Cost-based anti-spam systems Elias, Paul (December 26, 2010). "Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers (archived)"...
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Affiliate marketing (section E-mail spam)
service that contain rules against spam, this marketing method has historically proven to attract abuse from spammers. In the infancy of affiliate marketing...
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Radar (redirect from Radar systems)
air-defense systems, anti-missile systems, marine radars to locate landmarks and other ships, aircraft anti-collision systems, ocean surveillance systems, outer...
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Glossary of video game terms (redirect from Spam (Team Fortress))
genre based on gameplay from the Dark Souls series, typically where character death due to the high level of difficulty is a core mechanic. spamming Repeated...
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reportedly distributed through fake anti-virus software. E-mail spam, often appearing to come from a so-called "AntiVirus Team" included download links...
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Computer worm (redirect from Anti-worm)
malicious purposes, including sending spam or performing DoS attacks. Some special worms attack industrial systems in a targeted manner. Stuxnet was primarily...
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ReCAPTCHA (redirect from Stop Spam, Read Books)
(October 2, 2007). "Spam weapon helps preserve books". BBC. Archived from the original on May 18, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2007. "Fight Spam, Digitize Books"...
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Type II error (false negative): Spam email is not detected as spam, but is classified as non-spam. While most anti-spam tactics can block or filter a high...
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Botnet (category Spamming)
to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, steal data, send spam, and allow the attacker to access the device and its connection. The owner...
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Memory-bound function (category Anti-spam)
abusers from sending spam. The scheme was based on the idea that computer users are much more likely to abuse a resource if the cost of abusing the resource...
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25 traffic from their customers. Mainly as an anti-spam measure, but also to cure for the higher cost they have when leaving it open, perhaps by charging...
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Online advertising (redirect from Cost per view)
low cost of disseminating advertising contributes to spam, especially by large-scale spammers. Numerous efforts have been undertaken to combat spam, ranging...
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Twitter (category Android (operating system) software)
38% being conversational. Pass-along value had 9%, self-promotion 6% with spam and news each making 4%. Despite Jack Dorsey's own open contention that a...
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tk ending was often associated with malicious activities like phishing, spam and cybersquatting. In 2023, Freenom stopped offering new .tk registrations...
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covered by provisions related to religious offenses, e.g., anti-religious written statements. Spam: Offenders send out bulk mails by unidentified source and...
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systems, especially computer-aided process planning, used to generate sequences of actions to reach a specified goal. Generative AI planning systems used...
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Avast Antivirus (redirect from Avast! Anti-Virus)
antivirus software, firewall, anti-phishing, antispyware, and anti-spam, among other services. Avast Free Antivirus is the base product in the Avast lineup...
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Cryptocurrency (redirect from Math Based Currency)
rely on client-side proof-of-work as the transaction prioritization and anti-spam mechanism. Cryptocurrency exchanges allow customers to trade cryptocurrencies...
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