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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. Yep by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah we sure are gonna laugh at how stupid the world was! Can you believe we suffered from VB script worms! we could have fixed that in 5 minutes but no, it took 5 years! Some of us paid good money for software that was about as effective and usefull as a house with no doors! We even used software that told _US_ what _WE_ could do in our own homes!! There were really good, usefull standards that were proposed, they could have saved us so much time and made the computing world so easy, but they were all implemented so badly that there was just no point! every company and their dog thought they could do better by re-inventing the wheel until we had over 30000 of the damn things, all totally incompatable and adding nothing useful!

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  2. Re:Bill Gates forecasts victory over spam... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    You're stupid he only says that to make everyone use his windows products! The moment he he has a monopoly he will sell banners on his programs to all the spammers, just like MSN!

    So fuck Bill Gates! Don't use his software!

  3. Re:SPAM could be solved much faster... by bigberk · · Score: 1, Troll

    You are absolutely right. Windows insecurities are what primarily feed Internet spam, in the ways you have pointed out. Outlook alone is probably among the most blameworthy when it comes to facilitating world-wide spam (through worm vulnerability and intergration with Internet Explorer). Open SMTP relays are passe; who needs to find open relays when you (the spammer) can craft and distribute your own spamming software to millions of Windows users?