Spam Blocker
Spam blocker
Spam Blocker Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of
the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would
not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising,
often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal
services. Spam costs the sender very little to send -- most of the costs
are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on
Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20
or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have
found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not
relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers",
people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their
address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by
overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant
posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system
administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their
systems.
Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email
spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing
Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams
typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people -
anyone with measured phone service - read or receive their mail while
the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On
top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit
spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers.
One particularly nasty variant of email spam is sending spam to mailing
lists (public or private email discussion forums.) Because many mailing
lists limit activity to their subscribers, spammers will use automated
tools to subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible, so that they
can grab the lists of addresses, or use the mailing list as a direct
target for their attacks.
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The Goals of spam
The goal of spam
is to determine the intrinsic grouping in a set of unlabeled data. But
how to decide what constitutes a good spam? It can be shown that
there is no absolute “best” criterion which would be independent of the
final aim of the spam. Consequently, it is the user which must
supply this criterion, in such a way that the result of the spam
will suit their needs.
For instance, we could be interested in finding representatives for
homogeneous groups (data reduction), in finding “natural
clusters” and describe their unknown properties (“natural” data
types), in finding useful and suitable groupings (“useful” data
classes) or in finding unusual data objects (outlier detection).
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The Goals of spam
Who uses spam?
Many different types of organizations use
spam as a vital
part of the work. A sampling of these include:
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Marketing:
finding groups of customers with similar behavior given a large
database of customer data containing their properties and past
buying records;
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Biology:
classification of plants and animals given their features;
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Libraries:
book ordering;
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Insurance:
identifying groups of motor insurance policy holders with a high
average claim cost; identifying frauds;
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City-planning:
identifying groups of houses according to their house type,
value and geographical location;
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Earthquake
studies: spam observed earthquake epicenters to
identify dangerous zones;
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WWW:
document classification; spam weblog data to discover
groups of similar access patterns.
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Who Uses spam