Tuesday, December 05, 2006

'Bad Guys are Winning' Despite Fight Against Spam

Brad Stone writes on The International Herald Tribune:

Three years ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Gates, the Microsoft chairman, made an audacious prediction: The problem of unsolicited junk e-mail messages on the Internet would "be solved by 2006," he said.

Mehran Sabbaghian scoffs at that forecast. Sabbaghian, the network engineer at the Web-hosting company Lanset America, said that a sudden Internetwide increase in spam last month clogged his company's servers so badly that delivery of regular e-mail messages to customers was delayed by hours.

More here.

1 Comments:

At Tue Dec 05, 03:38:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I need the video of Mr Gates saying that. He gave a time frame of 'two years' if I recall.

 

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