The Imperceptible Cost of Eliminating Spam.

The article responds to the comments by David Jameson related to the article "Spam, Spim, and Spit," published in the April 2005 issue of the periodical "Communications of the ACM," concerning the disadvantages of challenge/ response (C/R) email systems. The best test of the idea will be to observe...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 6; p. 12
Main Author: Cerf, Vinton
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2005
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