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Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam

Posted by timothy on from the we-have-always-been-at-war-with-spam dept.

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.)

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  1. SPAM SUCKS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Spam is teh sux0rz.

  2. BWAAHAAH by skzbass · · Score: -1, Redundant

    HAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAMICROSOFTHAHAHHAHHAHAHHA HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHABWAHAHHAHAA Don't we do that already? Must we wait? BWAHAHAHAH

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  3. Re:Soon out.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ahem

  4. Re:Bill Gates forecasts victory over spam... by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, just like last time. Fat lot of good that did.

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  5. Re:Soon out.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Just FYI, Microsoft's junkmail filtering tools predate spam assassin by two years.

  6. Amusing, but lame by warm+sushi · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Why do we give attention to someone as obviously ignorant as Gates? It's embarressing. A quick scan of the more sensible comments here on /. makes it clear his grand vision for stopping spam has more implementation holes in it than Swiss cheese stored in a particle accelerator.