Personal Email Networks: An Effective Anti-Spam Tool

"A simple and easily implemented scheme for combating e-mail spam... The method effectively turns the spammers' weapon on themselves. "

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Collaborative Spam Filtering Using Email Networks

"The technique exploits the structure of social networks to determine whether a message is from a friend or a spammer."

"More than two-thirds of all email traffic is spam. But the problem could be reduced if our computers work together to control it."

"Combatting spam needs to be a joint effort, a pooling of anti-spam programme information the way police join forces to catch criminals"

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