The focus of this thesis is e-mail as a tool for the dissemination of information. Literature on e-mail has suggested that e-mail might influence and change communication patterns such as socialization, interdependence, and attention focus. Specifically, this study examined hierarchical similarities/differences in e-mail transmission and reception and user’s perceptions within an academic insti...

We present methods for finding experts (and their contact details) using e-mail messages. We locate messages on a topic, and then find the associated experts. Our approach is unsupervised: both the list of potential experts and their personal details are obtained automatically from e-mail message headers and signatures, respectively. Evaluation is done using the e-mail lists in the W3C corpus.

1. In your opinion, what are the most common ways malicious software (viruses etc.) gets into our company’s network? 2. Where can you find our company’s official information security instructions? 3. Have you applied the instructions concerning SC’s e-mail use to your work? If yes, give some examples of what instructions and for what purposes they were used. 4. Did you find the instructions use...

One of the major threats to the E-mail service are message loops, mail messages which endlessly circulate between a number of E-mail relays and severely deteriorate or even interrupt the messaging service. Although the standards ruling E-mail communications include mechanisms to prevent message loops, these mechanisms are often unimplemented and, if they are, can fail to work reliably under cer...

A field study was conducted using a questionnaire and interview:; concerning how electronic mail (E-mail) is used as a work tool for communication. The questionnaire, distributed electronically within a large organization, showed that employeessending and receiving large numbers of E-mail messages are not the same employees having problems handling E-mail. Managers seem to have problems to a la...

13 I magine sitting at your desk at home and checking your electronic mail. An audiovisual clip of your family members hundreds of miles away pops up with warm greetings and family news. This scenario lies within the capability of the integrated multimedia mailing system, called VistaMail, developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. VistaMail provides smooth and seamless transi...

We introduce a technique based on data mining algorithms for classifying incoming messages, as a basis for an overall architecture for maintenance and management of e-mail messages. We exploit clustering techniques for grouping structured and unstructured information extracted from e-mail messages in an unsupervised way, and exploit the resulting algorithm in the process of folder creation (and...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the Lucent Personalized Web Assis tant LPWA LPWA is a software system that enables a user to browse the Web in a person alized simple private and secure fashion and to lter junk e mail spam LPWA generates secure consistent and pseudonymous aliases personae for Web users Each alias consists of an alias username an alias password and an alias ...