At 05:12 AM 8/13/2003, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:16 PM -0400 2003/08/12, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
Can you give us any guidelines as to how we might be able
to help analyze this data?
First of all take a look at the following link which lists various
characteristics to look out for:
http://www.irtf.org/asrg/spam_characterization.htm
I've seen that before. While it is a list of interesting
characteristics that tend to be common with spam, it has not been clear
to me how this relates to the overall effort.
I think we were planning on looking at these specific characteristics
when analyzing spam data. Paul Judge (the chair) was working on that, you
can contact him for more information.
.....
Third, we need someone to be in charge of the
analysis work, coordinating various research in that area.
In charge? In what way? Does this person need to be deeply
knowledgeable in statistics and applying statistical methods to the
analysis, or would that work be done by someone else?
The group is gigantic and there are eight major areas of research. We would
like to see each of those eight areas (and possibly some of the large
sub-areas) to be headed by someone. Heading an area would imply
coordinating efforts in that area, getting people to volunteer, etc. In the
analysis area specifically it would not hurt to know statistics, but I
think that it is not necessary. If you are willing to manage that area, you
can get someone to help who does know statistics.
Yakov
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