More at http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincitie ... 783796.htmDAVOS, 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.
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Now that's an interesting thought! Let's hope he's right
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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.Derek wrote:Now that's an interesting thought! Let's hope he's right
More at http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincitie ... 783796.htmDAVOS, 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.
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Drat. Now where am I going to get my Viagra, hot young chicks and penile extensions from?
Drat. Now where am I going to get my Viagra, hot young chicks and penile extensions from?
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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
Kuun
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
Kuun
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spybot s&d
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spybot is good
i like spybot.. been using it for awhile now
i like spybot.. been using it for awhile now
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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
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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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 $$$.
Granted, he'll probably want to increase MS's (soon to be very much reduced) revenues any way he can, but I've seen no evidence of:
As much as I hate Gates, as anyone here will testify, he's proposed several solutions to the problem.
My favourite one, the so-called "Penny Black" idea, would not cost anyone any money unless they were mass-mailing. The idea is to tax computer CPU and/or memory power per email, not $$$.
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:
Can you back this up?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.
MS's soon to be very reduced revenue?
whats this about?
whats this about?
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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
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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