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E-mail has become an efficient and popular communication mechanism as
the number of Internet users has increased. It has provided both faster and
cheaper forms of communication mechanism. But a large part of e-mail traffic
consists of non-personal, non-time critical and unsolicited information. This type of
e-mail is called Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) and is commonly known by
various other synonymous names like spam e-mail, bulk e-mail, junk
e-mail, unimportant e-mail and Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE). E-mail spam is
a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to
numerous recipients by e-mail. According to Saini and Desai (2009), there are various
types of UBE, like those dealing with financial transactions, viruses, chain
letters, pornography and fake offers for jobs, medicines, etc.
Pornography or porn is defined as the portrayal of explicit sexual
subject matter (Wikipedia Pornography, 2010). This portrayal may exhibit itself in
either textual form or graphical form. In the current work, we have attempted to
identify the usage of Hindi terms in pornographic spam e-mails. The target of the
current work is, hence, to focus on pornographic UBE in textual format. This way,
we have attempted to understand the spamming behavior as well as the usage
of Hindi words in pornographic spamming. On the sidelines of the paper, we
have also attempted to study the usage of non-dictionary or slang Hindi words
in pornographic UBE. We believe that in the context of international spamming,
the scope of Hindi spamming is regional and limited, as compared to the bulk
of pornographic UBE in English roaming over the Internet. |
