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- Title
Filtering and email pricing as solutions to spam.
- Authors
Eaton, B. Curtis; MacDonald, Ian A.; Meriluoto, Laura
- Abstract
We analyze the success of filtering as a solution to the spam problem when used alone or concurrently with sender pricing, receiver pricing, or both. We find that filtering alone may exacerbate the spam problem in terms of both the total number of spam message sent and the expected number of spam messages received, because it may cause the spammer to send multiple variants of his message to each customer in an attempt to evade the filter. Sender and receiver prices work as expected. The effectiveness of each instrument improves as the levels of other instruments are increased.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of spam email; PRICING; SPAM filtering (Email); CONTENT filters (Computer science); EMAIL security
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, Vol 46, Issue 3, p881
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/caje.12043