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Global-scale Anti-spam Testing in Your Own Back Yard
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@MISC{Nielsen_global-scaleanti-spam,
author = {Margaret Nielsen and John Aycock and Dane Bertram and Nathan Friess and Sampson Pun},
title = {Global-scale Anti-spam Testing in Your Own Back Yard},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The effectiveness of anti-spam techniques is an important question: after all, spam has a real cost to legitimate users in terms of time and resources. The problem is how we determine effectiveness, especially for anti-spam techniques that are distributed, and require global scale to function. A scientific approach would suggest that we conduct controlled experiments to evaluate global-scale anti-spam techniques, but that requires controlling the Internet. Or does it? In this paper, we describe a system we have constructed to test global anti-spam techniques that is built on top of the Spamulator, a system that simulates relevant parts of the Internet on a single computer. We demonstrate the ability of our testing system to conduct large-scale experiments with some proof-of-concept experiments on SMTP tarpits and a variation on the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse. 1
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