Towards the effective temporal association mining of spam blacklists
Andrew G. West, Insup Lee · 2011
IP blacklists are a well-regarded anti-spam mechanism that capture global spamming patterns. These properties make such lists a practical ground-truth by which to study email spam behaviors. Observing one blacklist for nearly a year-and-a-half, we collected data on roughly half a billion listing events. In this paper, that data serves two purposes.