Collaborative spam filtering technique based On MIME fingerprints

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. However, the popular spam filtering methods are encountering spammers´ various disguise and confusion which seriously degrade the effect of spam filter. This paper proposes a collaborative spam filtering technique based on MIME fingerprints. By comparison experiments, our scheme achieved better performance and robustness for spam detection and filtering in privacy-protected context.