Schryen Anti-Spam Measures

Analysis and Design
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-71750-8
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
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I am not sure about the meaning of a preface, neither about its convenience or needlessness nor about the addressees. However, I suppose that it is expected to tell a (part of the) “story behind the story” and that it is read by at least two types of readers: The ?rst group consists of friends, colleagues, and all others who have contributed to the “opus” in any way. Presumably, most of them like being named in the preface, and I think they deserve this attention becausetheyhaveaccompaniedtheroadtotheopusandare,thus,partofthe whole. Thesecondgroupcomprisesthoseacademicfellowswhoareinthesame boot as I am in terms of preparing or having even ?nished their doctoral or habilitation thesis. All others – be it that they generally like reading prefaces or expect hints with regard to the reading of this book – are likewise welcome to reading this preface. This book contains most parts of my habilitation thesis, which was - cepted by the Faculty of Business and Economics of the RWTH Aachen U- versity, Germany. Unfortunately, to avoid possible copyright violation, I had to omit some paragraphs of the proposed infrastructure framework presented in Chapt. 6. If you are interested in the full version of this speci?c chapter, please contact me (schryen@gmx. net) and I will be happy to provide you an electronic copy. Usually, a thesis represents a (loosely-coupled) collection of published papers (cumulative thesis) or a classic monograph.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schryen, Guido

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;List of Figures;11
4;List of Tables;13
5;Abbreviations;14
6;1 Introduction;17
6.1;1.1 The problem;17
6.2;1.2 The history;18
6.3;1.3 Goals, methodology, and architecture;19
7;2 Spam and its economic significance;22
7.1;2.1 Definition;22
7.2;2.2 Spam statistics;24
7.3;2.3 Spam categories;27
7.4;2.4 Economic harm;37
7.5;2.5 Economic benefit;41
8;3 The e-mail delivery process and its susceptibility to spam;43
8.1;3.1 The e-mail delivery process;43
8.2;3.2 SMTP’s susceptibility to spam;50
9;4 Anti-spam measures;57
9.1;4.1 Legislative measures;57
9.2;4.2 Organizational measures;68
9.3;4.3 Behavioral measures;70
9.4;4.4 Technological measures;73
10;5 A model-driven analysis of the effectiveness of technological anti- spam measures;108
10.1;5.1 A model of the Internet e-mail infrastructure;109
10.2;5.2 Deriving and categorizing the spam delivery routes;118
10.3;5.3 The effectiveness of route-specific anti-spam measures;125
11;6 An infrastructure framework for addressing spam;131
11.1;6.1 Overview of the framework;132
11.2;6.2 Organizational solution;135
11.3;6.3 Technological solution;140
11.4;6.4 Theoretical effectiveness;151
11.5;6.5 Deployment and impact on e-mail communication;152
11.6;6.6 Drawbacks and limitations;155
12;7 The empirical analysis of the abuse of e-mail addresses placed on the Internet;157
12.1;7.1 The relevance of inspecting e-mail address harvesting;157
12.2;7.2 Prior studies and findings;159
12.3;7.3 A methodology and honeypot conceptualization;161
12.4;7.4 The prototypic implementation of an empirical study;177
13;8 Summary and outlook;187
14;A Process for parsing, classifying, and storing e- mails;197
15;B Locations seeded with addresses that attracted most spam;200
16;References;203
17;Index;214