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Resisting Spam Delivery by TCP Damping
Overview Spam has become a major problem that is threatening the efficiency of the current email system. Spam is overwhelming the Internet because emails are pushed from senders to receivers without much control from recipients, and the cost for delivering emails is very low. This paper presents an anti-spam framework that slows down spammers: by adding delay to email delivery, and by consuming more sender resources. Both delay and resource consumption are controlled based on the likelihood of the source of email messages being a spammer, so that the technique only impact the spammers and has negligible impact on normal email senders. The mechanisms are implemented in the TCP level at the recipient side without requiring any modifications at the sender side.
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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