Email Spam Filtering
World Wide Web (The Internet) is the greatest invention of all times and it’s the most
important of all. Today, everyone in all walks of life depend on the internet to do their
work; in communications, education, telemedicine, commerce and many other fields.
Using the internet people can utilize their time in the best way, they can do their work
from any place even their homes without any problems or difficulties, and they can
communicate using voice, videos or text with other people all over the world.
Communicating in text form uses one of the most important characteristic of the
internet which is called the E-Mail (or Electronic Mail). E-mail has become the fastest,
most economical and social form of communications available in this highly technical
world and our computer-connected society.
This widespread use of email encouraged direct marketers to flood ordinary email
inboxes with email messages about everything from things for sale and ways to get -
rich-quickly to information about how to open pornography web sites. This has created
many problems that pose a threat to technology and communications, and cause a big
problem that makes the internet difficult to use, and time consuming. One of the main
problems that attacked the best communication way (e-mail) called SPAM, makes email
unsafe and causes very large usage of storage space. This has raised many
about spam, what is it, its history, who is the spammer, and what are the main tricks of
the spammer. These questions have raised many answers.
