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Volume 48 ,  Issue 4  (April 2005) table of contents
Transforming China
COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents
Pages: 39 - 43  
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Vinton G. Cerf  MCI
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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Downloads (6 Weeks): 15,   Downloads (12 Months): 156,   Citation Count: 5
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ABSTRACT

Abolishing spam, and its morphing forms, will take more than public protest and current filtering and legislative quick fixes.


CITED BY  5
Guy Vollmer , Katrin Gaβner, Quality improvement of email communication in work groups and organizations by reflection, Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, November 06-09, 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Jonna Häkkilä , Minna Isomursu, User experiences on location-aware mobile services, Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: citizens online: considerations for today and the future, November 21-25, 2005, Canberra, Australia
Luiz H. Gomes , Fernando D. O. Castro , Virgílio A. F. Almeida , Jussara M. Almeida , Rodrigo B. Almeida , Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Improving spam detection based on structural similarity, Proceedings of the Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Workshop, p.12-12, July 07, 2005, Cambridge, MA
Yuh-Jzer Joung , Chu-Jui Yang, Email licensing, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, v.32 n.3, p.538-549, May, 2009
Wilfried N. Gansterer , Michael Ilger, Analyzing UCE/UBE traffic, Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce, August 19-22, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.6 Security and Protection

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.2 Social Issues
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce


General Terms:
Human Factors, Security


REVIEW

"Jack Noel Rose : Reviewer"

If you find spam annoying, be forewarned by Cerf's article about additional unwanted technological impositions, called spim and spit. "Spim" refers to unwanted instant messaging (IM) sessions, while "spit" refers to "spam over Internet telephony."  more...

Collaborative Colleagues:
Vinton G. Cerf: colleagues

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