(INFLIBNET Centre, 2005-11-10) Choudhury, Subhajit; Dey, Biswanath; Kumar, S.
The paper introduces with a brief history of spam. Defines the term spam as Electronic junk
mail or junk newsgroup postings. The trick of spam operators. Enlightens with some tips of
Spam handling. It also describes various tools of spam and a through investigation of
spam filtering, its importance, and available software that can help for spam filtering and
information security in an information system. Lastly, the importance of anti-spam filtering
to libraries and information centres have been discussed. Concludes with suggestion for
using anti-spam software.