ICSI in The Chronicle of Higher Education

California researchers have developed a system they believe could stop the most common kind of spam from reaching people’s in boxes. Most spam e-mail messages are transmitted using a few infected computers that use a template-based system. The new system works by analyzing the small changes in messages that spammers make to slip past spam filters, according to the team from the University of California at San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif.