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Spam is Dead

Vainglorious Coward writes "Two years on from Bill Gates' promise to eradicate spam, an article in The Observer claims that spam has passed its peak and is now declining. Is it just me that hasn't noticed this?" I got almost a third more spam in 05 than 04. I guess I exist outside the bell curve on this one.

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  1. Re:Centralized Email by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gates and co. would have to have an effective monopoly on email traffic for that to work.

    Boy, I bet they never thought of that.

    KFG

  2. Gates Quote by Animus+Howard · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Nobody will ever get more than 64,000 spams."

  3. Bill still has over a week to go! Be fair! by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    He made that statement Friday, January 23rd, 2004 so he still has 11 days to pull it off. So he can still slack off for ten days and pull an all-nighter of something. (Maybe he could offer each spammer 2 million dollars to go away? For less than billion, problem solved .. right? ;)

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  4. Bill Gates, prognosticator by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Gates declared war on spam 2 years ago. Well, he declared war on Windows security problems 5 years ago.

    Given this track record, I expect he will next claim that he will eliminate corruption in Congress.

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  5. Re:Yes, New Year's by cryptor3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me too. I think that on New Year's Day, at least seven spammers emailed me to wish me a more fulfilling and enlarged new year!

  6. Re:Oh Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's "Gee, thanks, Doctor" to you, sir.

  7. Re:really? by kormat · · Score: 5, Funny
    My own gmail account remains Free and Clear; I actually got one spam message ever on it, and I've had it for quite awhile now


    Dude, it's just a junk email, let it go. It's not like it's a family heirloom, you don't have to pass your one junk email down to your children and your children's children.

    Steve
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