A Study of Email Spam and How to Effectively Combat It
Journal Title: Webology - Year 2007, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper presents the results of researching the issues pertaining to email spam on Bahrain's email society and how to combat it. We have surveyed the status of spam amongst the Bahraini community through a carefully prepared questionnaire and studied the effects of spam on the social and economical welfare of Bahrainis. The research results stress the need to regulate spam spread through the introduction of a spam law. The overwhelming majority of the Bahraini email community expresses concern with receiving spam but some would still prefer to continue to receive some sort of controlled spam especially commercial advertising spam. The paper addresses the different concerns expressed by the email community and measures the levels of these concerns in terms of age, gender, work productivity. This paper is aimed at setting the pace for regulating and raising the level of awareness of email spam in the Arab countries.
Authors and Affiliations
Mansoor Al-A'ali
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP687514
- DOI -
- Views 194
- Downloads 0
How Do Search Engines Handle Chinese Queries?
The use of languages other than English has been growing exponentially on the Web. However, the major search engines have been lagging behind in providing indexes and search features to handle these languages. This artic...
Towards Information Anxiety and Beyond
This study provides an overview of the historical background of information anxiety, critically reviews the existing framework, and proposes a new framework for information anxiety that goes beyond information retrieval...
Detecting Fake Accounts on Twitter Social Network Using Multi-Objective Hybrid Feature Selection Approach
The frequency of fake accounts or social bots is considered as one of serious challenges of online social networks, which are controlled by automatic operators and often used for malicious purposes. The researchers have...
Improvement of methodical approaches to higher schools' marketing activity assessment on the basis of Internet technologies application
The paper substantiates the necessity of higher schools marketing activity developing on the basis of Internet technologies; suggests the technique of comprehensive assessment of functioning and quality of the site as th...
An Evaluation of the Websites of Charities and Voluntary Organisations Providing Support for Young People: Case Study: Drugscope
This paper reports on a study examining the usage, usability and impact of a charitable Website 'Drugscope'. A range of methods were used to evaluate the site, including Inspection, examining the extent to which the site...