Reply emails to the survey solicitation arrived from 422 prospective participants, indicating a willingness of 422 individuals, who were either educators, administrators, or other practitioners in the early education field.
"Coordinate someone who can cover in your absence," advises Rasmussen, "and include his or her information in your out-of-office reply emails and voicemail messages".
Reply emails were included with the interview corpus for detailed analysis.
Table 5 Top coalitions of features across all clusters Coalition Percentage (phone, subject, from, reply, email body) 13 (phone, reply, email body) 12 (phone, subject, reply, email body) 11 (phone, from, reply, email body) 7 (phone, subject) 6 (phone, from) 5 (phone, reply) 4 (phone, reply, subject) 4 (phone, reply, subject, from) 4 others 33.
Feel free to contact me via reply email or at [phone number redacted].
Inversely, some redundancy was put on certain combinations of email address-related features, such as (reply, email body), in order to diminish their redundancy effect on the overall similarity score.
More specifically, we used various string-oriented similarity measures commonly used in information retrieval, such as the Levenshtein similarity (for the subject) and the N-gram similarity (for features as from, reply, email body).
We observe that the features mainly responsible for linking scam messages in the clusters involve phone numbers (in 88% cases), followed by the reply email address (for 66% of the links).
We have the name of approximately 80%% of the property owners or renters in our sample, either because they were advertising it in the rental ad or because they would sign the reply email.
Another specificity of this dataset is that each message can contain several email addresses and phone numbers, where the number of different email addresses can be as high as five per message: from email address, reply email, and other email addresses indicated in the body of the messages.
