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Story: Sophos: Gates will be proved wrong about spam

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Did anyone, apart from Bill and his acolytes, really believe that spam would be "dead" within two years? My personal email comprises about 17% spam and I see no sign of it decreasing (apart from when the odd botnet gets taken down). Spam is no loger a minor annoyance, its a fact of life - if you've got an email address then expect it to be spammed.

The big problem with Bill Gates' solution is that is was Microsoft centric. One company can't dictate to everyone else how to handle email, especially when the largest installed base of mail server software is freeware/open source.

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