[Am-info] Gates forecasts victory over spam

[Erick Andrews]

I honestly haven't figured out yet whether Gates is
socially AND politically brain-dead, but this item
should give some food for thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3426367.stm

Here's the gist of it:

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But ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed 
through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as
"payment at risk". 

This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an 
e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter senders of
real e-mail because they could be confident that their mail 
would be accepted. 

"Microsoft is pursuing all three approaches, and spam will 
soon be a thing of the past," Mr Gates asserted. 
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What's this?  Osama Bin Spamster-fixer?

Another artificial, wannabe-topical-social-engineering-mind-fart,
IMNSHO, to make Wall Street hay.  I think.

Don't you just love these technological fixes from Redmond?

Bill missed his chance to be on the other side of the Buffalo Nickel.

-- 
Erick Andrews