Title :
A Social View on Unsolicited Bulk Email Impacts on Mobile Mail Addresses
Author :
Yamakami, Toshihiko
Author_Institution :
Res. & Dev., ACCESS, Tokyo
Abstract :
The mobile Internet has been threatened by unsolicited bulk mail attacks. This threat has caused user adoption of the longer email addresses and exposes new user behaviors in always-on ubiquitous world. The author discusses the three factors of mail address evolution from the three perspectives: defensive, cognitive and social views. The author analyzes the address length transition over 4 years in Japan. The author describes an excessive user behavior on the use of special characters from the viewpoint of trade-offs among defensive, cognitive and social aspects
Keywords :
Internet; mobile computing; social aspects of automation; unsolicited e-mail; address length transition; always-on ubiquitous world; cognitive aspect; defensive aspect; mail address evolution; mobile Internet; mobile mail address; social aspect; unsolicited bulk email attack; Electronic commerce; Humans; Internet; Mobile handsets; Postal services; Reliability engineering; Research and development; Robustness; Social factors; Springs;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2006. PDCAT '06. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2736-1
DOI :
10.1109/PDCAT.2006.19
