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Please Bill, No More Predictions

A few days ago a colleague brought to our attention a prediction Bill Gates made three years ago: the spam problem “will be solved by 2006.” Today we read (NY Times article; free log-in may be required) that worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year. A spam-filtering company reports that junk e-mail now accounts for more than 90 percent of all e-mail messages sent over the Internet. Let’s hope Bill Gates hasn’t made any predictions about curing security breaches, and that Gordon Moore hasn’t said anything about spam….

Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 at 04:13PM by Registered CommenterT.R. Franklin in | Comments1 Comment

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I don't normally agree with much of what Bill Gates has to say, but, several years ago he stated that there should be a (very) small fee to send an email. One hundreth of a cent, per email, would probably not effect legitimate users, but might deter spammers.
Don Osborn
January 15, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterDon Osborn

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