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Now that's an interesting thought! Let's hope he's right :)
DAVOS, Switzerland wrote:Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday predicted the death of spam in two years and said his company is working on a new software that would make it impractical and uneconomical for marketers to send the mass e-mails that annoy so many e-mail users.
More at :arrow: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincitie ... 783796.htm
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Derek wrote:Now that's an interesting thought! Let's hope he's right :)
DAVOS, Switzerland wrote:Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday predicted the death of spam in two years and said his company is working on a new software that would make it impractical and uneconomical for marketers to send the mass e-mails that annoy so many e-mail users.
More at :arrow: http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincitie ... 783796.htm
This will be great, if it happens. I hope someone starts looking at the spyware issue. Over the last few months, more and more of our customers are being affected more by spyware than spam.

(is it effected or affected?)
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affected :)
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InactiveX wrote:affected :)
Thanx, M8! (corrected error)
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NP Hyperspace.

Drat. Now where am I going to get my Viagra, hot young chicks and penile extensions from?
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InactiveX wrote:Drat. Now where am I going to get my Viagra, hot young chicks and penile extensions from?
ROTFFL! :twisted:
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ok...

now THAT worries me...

inactivex actually READS the spam mail... naughty

i fight the spyware battles everyday..... my system keeps getting infested with gator.... i just wanna DDOS gator so friggin bad


btw on a side note... i have noticed a dramatic decrease in spam mail to my hotmail account

usually spam would have my account over it's limit within 2 days.. i haven't touched the junk mail folder in over 2 weeks.... just to check for ebay stuff

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What do you use to battle spyware/adware/malware?
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spybot s&d
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spybot 1.2 (S & D), as well.
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spybot is good

i like spybot.. been using it for awhile now
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Post by clsmith »

"..impractical and uneconomical for marketers to send the mass e-mails."


The second part of this 'revelation' that they've, conveniently, left out is that Bill wants to charge a penny per e-mail. :twisted:

That's right $.01 everytime you hit send.

Apparently he doesn't have enough money yet.
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see
here's the thing about people like bill gates


they have SO much money.. and al lthey can think about.. is how to turn that money into more money

he has more money than he could ever spend in a lifetime


BTW
just imagine how much of his money will goto the government once he dies and passes it all to his heir's
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I just run my own mail server and let the spam go to the spam account which autodelets everything when it reaches 100 messages. So about 45 times a day it dumps the spam ;)
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Post by InactiveX »

Hold up!!!

As much as I hate Gates, as anyone here will testify, he's proposed several solutions to the problem.

My favourite one, the so-called "Penny Black" idea, would not cost anyone any money unless they were mass-mailing. The idea is to tax computer CPU and/or memory power per email, not $$$.

Granted, he'll probably want to increase MS's (soon to be very much reduced) revenues any way he can, but I've seen no evidence of:
clsmith wrote:The second part of this 'revelation' that they've, conveniently, left out is that Bill wants to charge a penny per e-mail.
Can you back this up?
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MS's soon to be very reduced revenue?

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Post by InactiveX »

What with massive (~95%) discounts to governments and corporations who so much as threaten to use OSS, the Windows and Office cash cows are looking decidedly shaky.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/window ... 884,00.htm

http://theinquirer.net/?article=11316

http://theinquirer.net/?article=13374

http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/31759.html
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Ahh, The Register and The Inquirer. Some of the only few true lights in the Universe.

You Brits scare me. :twisted: :D
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