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Experts See End to Computer 'Spam' by 2006

Feb 2, 2004 10:48AM PST

Internet users beware within a couple of years you may have fewer opportunities to reduce your debt or increase your ***** size.Unwanted "spam" offers currently account for more than half of all e-mail traffic, but at least two high-tech executives say the torrent of pornography and unbelievably low mortgage rates could slow to a trickle by 2006. Microsoft Corp . founder Bill Gates predicted the demise of unsolicited commercial e-mail at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, according to a company spokesman. His prediction was backed up on Monday by the head of a prominent anti-spam company.

"I believe we'll solve spam by the end of 2005," said Enrique Salem, president and chief executive of privately held Brightmail Inc., which scrubs spam for large Internet service providers like Verizon Communications and BellSouth Corp.. That may seem like wishful thinking to Internet users who have seen no drop in herbal Viagra offers since a new federal anti-spam law went into effect on January 1. Salem said Brightmail numbers show that the proportion of spam has increased to around 60 percent of all e-mail, from 58 percent in December. That figure should peak around 65 percent later this year and than start to decline as improved filtering techniques take hold and federal agents begin enforcing the new law, he said.

http://www.sarawaktribune.com.my/publish/article_22375.shtml

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and someone said it won't works because..
Feb 2, 2004 11:51AM PST

in www.pcworld.com I read that MS/Bill gates plan to stop/reduce spam, won't works because it involving money ..

It will ask (create a system) that the bulk mail sender (or provider) to pay 50 cent per email... with the hope they will think before pressing the send button...

Please apologized for not giving a URL ... (I can not find it) its on yesterday pcworld news.

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Re:and someone said it won't works because..
Feb 2, 2004 12:18PM PST
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Brightmail are scarcely the experts
Feb 2, 2004 1:00PM PST

Being prominent and enduring in the field does not make them experts. I used to use Brightmail for filtering, then dunped them when I spent more time picking up blocked legitimate emails from their collection site, than I spent receiving those which arrived in my mailbox.

This is why I am looking at broadband as it is now available in my area, but one prime question I am asking is what do they do with filtered spam? If any say they remove it, instead of letting me as owner of the mail decide, then I strike them off my list of suitable ISPs. BTW, under British law if the postal service witheld mail from me because they considered it SPAM (junk mail), they would actually be committing a criminal offence.