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Robert Miller.
Rideout, Ariel Lauren
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2006-07-13T15:17:12Z
2006-07-13T15:17:12Z
2005
2005
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33348
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74).
The Apuma system described in this thesis was designed and implemented as a novel combination of existing technologies in order to give an email user full control over their incoming email. The innate uncertainty of automatic spam detection creates a tension between the desire to filter 100% of spam, and the need to avoid the loss of legitimate mail. Apuma attempts to solve this problem by combining accept-lists with payment systems and content evaluation. Messages from known senders can be exempted from filtering; combined with intelligent automated management of the accept-list this can eliminate the vast majority of false-positives. Remaining mail can thus be subjected to much more rigorous screening. Finally, first time contact and other special cases can be handled with micro-payments or micro-bonds. Apuma includes a plugin interface that allows any financial, proof-of work, or other desired protocol to be integrated into the Apuma filtering framework.
by Ariel Lauren Rideout.
M.Eng.
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