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Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam
nfk writes "BBC reports from the World Economic Forum at Davos, where Bill Gates said spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time, thanks to a three-pronged approach to the problem: filters, expensive computation for e-mail and the digital equivalent to stamps, paid if the receiver considers he is being spammed. He also expects to catch up with Google, although he praises the company and the IQ of its research team. Finally, he announces mind blowing developments for the next XBox generation and says that, in a decade from now, 'we will laugh at personal computing as we know it.' No need to wait, I do it every day." (We've mentioned Microsoft's sender's-option payment scheme before.)
If Bill Gates says it's so... it must be!
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Next thing you know Bill will show the world Microsoft Cold Fusion Reactors, the Microsoft Space Agency, Microsoft Manual of Women and Microsoft Anti-Hangover Tablets! Go Bill!
Hate me!
He expects to catch up with google? this looks more like a huge wish then a prediction
Jeff
Let's say that a billion pieces of spam are sent every day. All MS needs to do is send a few duotrigintillion 'Try MSN 9.0 Today' E-Mail per day, and, boom, the spam is effectively nonexistent. After all, anything MS sends is legitimate and solicited, right?
Rather than using a three pronged approach using filters, expensive computation and digital stamps to combat spammers, how about a simple tool that has three prongs?
myke
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Are they shutting down hotmail in a couple of years, or what?
And I'm sure we'll continue to laugh at Microsoft.
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George W. Bush in 2004!
I mean, I never get junk mail at home in my mailbox - I'm sure I would if the US post delivered for free.
He hailed search technology firm Google as a "great company"; its approach reminded him of Microsoft 20 years ago.
I could say something witty right now but, really, there is no point. Bill Gates has done it for me.
~Tirinal
...there must be some hidden agenda here. My theory is that Microsoft patented certain penis enlargement techniques and want to get rid of the competition.
So in a couple of years I'll get to spend half my day solving puzzles?
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You won't. Your computer will have to. Example from RFC-4821:
R: 220 BBN-UNIX.ARPA Puzzling Mail Transfer Service Ready
S: HELO USC-ISIF.ARPA
R: 250 BBN-UNIX.ARPA
S: MAIL FROM:<Smith@USC-ISIF.ARPA>
R: 503 Polite people solve a puzzle first
S: ASKME
R: 366 Why did the chicken cross the road?
S: ANSWER To deliver the mail!
R: 250 OK
S: MAIL FROM:<Smith@USC-ISIF.ARPA>
R: 250 OK
"nice elegant Sendmail"?? The same one whose configuation syntax is only slightly distinguishable from line noise?
I want some of what you're smoking.
Is this rock and roll, or a form of state control?
What REALLY pisses me off is that the *real*, legitimate penis enlargement comapanies are being painted with this broad brush.
Don't bomb me - the above is a joke.
I've heard the name will be "VisualSMTP.NET".
That would be those queries that return MS branded websites. Google returns more Linux oriented websites when you're feeling lucky.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
SMTP# you silly man.
Infuriate left and right
Microsoft will end spam in 3 years! They will "investigate" a spam company, use this information to start their own spam initiative and force out all other spam companies. Then they will screw up spam so bad that it will be laughably easy to block for everyone not running Windows and or Outlook.
I have forseen it.
640,000 spam emails is enough for anyone.
Microsoft has always been good on promises. The fact is that spam is getting worse and worse. Microsoft at the moment does absolutely nothing about it. I had to let go of my hotmail address because I got so much spam in it that the mailbox would overflow twice a day. I have tried several freemail providers and hotmail is absolutely the worst in every respect, certainly regarding spam.
But Gates flashes a big smile and says Microsoft solves the spam problem! Yes, it will be gone Real Soon Now. Don't worry but trust Microsoft! Have we ever let you down?
"We believe that OS/2 is the platform for the 90's" - Bill Gates.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
by introducing its all-new Secure Proprietary Advanced Mail protocol. Oh, wait...
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
Here's your Bayesian filtering for Outlook. Microsoft is also distributing a Bayesian filter with Outlook 2003, but get this - it's pre-trained and can't learn any more!