@article{goodman2005stopping, author = {Goodman, Joshua and Heckerman, David and Rounthwaite, Robert}, title = {Stopping Spam}, year = {2005}, month = {April}, abstract = {In 1978 the first spam e-mail—a plug from a marketing representative at Digital Equipment Corporation for the new Decsystem-20 computer—was dispatched to about 400 people on the Arpanet. Today junk correspondence in the form of unwanted commercial solicitations constitutes more than two thirds of all e-mail transmitted over the Internet, accounting for billions of messages every day.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/stopping-spam/}, pages = {42-49}, journal = {Scientific American}, volume = {292}, }