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Spam blocker tool Isn't it amazing how we've moved from
communicating by telephone to fax machine to e-mail so seamlessly just
the last few years. The good news is we now are more productive. The bad
news is the proliferation of unwanted, unsolicited, and sometime crude
e-mail may be on the verge of ruining of very good thing, I'm talking,
of course, about spam.
The legal issues regarding spam are convoluted and messy. During a
three-day Federal Trade Commission (FTC) forum on the subject last year,
a consensus couldn't even be reached on simply defining what spare is,
despite attendees spending the entire opening morning trying to hammer
out a definition. For our purposes, let's agree that spam is unsolicited
e-mail from someone you don't know.
The good news for you is spam is far less of a burden to work e-mail
accounts than to personal accounts. Forty percent of those who receive
e-mail at work get no spam at all according to a study by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project. Spam accounts for less than 10% of
e-mail for a whopping 66% of people who receive e-mail at work.
That's good to hear. But the bad new is, if someone who receives an
email he considers spam from your business, it will stand out more and
get his attention, casting you in a poor light. Worse, if used
improperly, e-mail may get you in other kinds of trouble.
Legal issues
The U.S. House and Senate passed anti-spam legislation late in 2003.
Spammers would face $250 fines for each pitch, possibly adding up to $6
million for the worst offenders.
The slippery slope is that a new federal law would usurp existing state
laws, some of which allow e-mail recipients to sue spammers directly.
California's law, which went into effect Jan. 1, would even ban truthful
spare, as long as it is unsolicited. The FTC estimates 16% of spam is
from legitimate advertisers selling legal products.
A Do Not Spam Registry from the FTC may be in the works. But it may face
the same First Amendment legal challenge as the federal Do No Call
Registry restricting telemarketing.
Spam and you
So how do you stay out of legal trouble but still use e-mail to deliver
a positive message about your company? How does spare's proliferation
affect you and other concrete producers? The danger is that people's
hostility and fear of spare may prevent you from using e-mail for
legitimate marketing and advertising.
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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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