We all know that different people get different amounts of email “spam“. Some of these differences result from how careful people have been in hiding their address from the spammers — putting it en claire on a webpage will definitely improve your chances of receiving unsolicited email. However, it turns out there’s other effects as well. In a paper I presented last week to the Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008), I showed that the first letter of the local part of the email address also plays a part. (Source)
We all know that different people get different amounts of email “spam“. Some of these differences result from how careful people have been in hiding their address from the spammers — putting it en claire on a webpage will definitely improve your chances of receiving unsolicited email.
However, it turns out there’s other effects as well. In a paper I presented last week to the Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008), I showed that the first letter of the local part of the email address also plays a part. (Source)
Interesting piece of research.
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