Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach

Wouter Willem de Vries; Giovane Moreira Moura; Aiko Pras

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13971-0_18

Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach

Wouter Willem de Vries, Giovane Moreira Moura, Aiko Pras

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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.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceeings of 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop (EUNICE 2010)
Editors	Finn Arve Aagesen, Svein Johan Knapskog
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	188-197
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-13970-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13971-0_18
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop on Networked Services and Applications - Engineering, Control and Management - Trondheim, Norway Duration: 28 Jun 2010 → 30 Jun 2010 Conference number: 16th

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	6164/2010

Workshop

Workshop	16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop on Networked Services and Applications - Engineering, Control and Management
Abbreviated title	EUNICE 2010
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	28/06/10 → 30/06/10

Keywords

METIS-270893
EWI-18095
IR-72174

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de Vries, WW, Moreira Moura, G & Pras, A 2010, Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach. in FA Aagesen & SJ Knapskog (eds), Proceeings of 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop (EUNICE 2010). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6164/2010, Springer, Berlin, pp. 188-197, 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop on Networked Services and Applications - Engineering, Control and Management, Trondheim, Norway, 28/06/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13971-0_18

Fighting Spam on the Sender Side: A Lightweight Approach. / de Vries, Wouter Willem; Moreira Moura, Giovane; Pras, Aiko.

Proceeings of 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 Workshop (EUNICE 2010). ed. / Finn Arve Aagesen; Svein Johan Knapskog. Berlin : Springer, 2010. p. 188-197 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 6164/2010).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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