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Thu 26 Jun, 2003 06:57 am
One of the negative sides to the internet is spam. Unwanted commercial solicitations have become the bane of a computer user's existence. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel though.
Bill Gates has declared war on spam. His company, Microsoft is working on a number of technologies that if it won't stop spam in its tracks, will slow it down a lot.
Do you get a lot of spam? are you bothered by it? Have you implemented any techniques to curb the amount of spam that you get?
Link to Microsoft's War on Spam
While I'd be in favor of reducing spam I'm not particularly thrilled about MS taking any lead in the process. For one thing, they do a pretty crappy job on their own services to begin with. How many spam e-mails have you gotten that come from a hotmail.com account? When MS stops spammers form using their own service they'll have made a huge dent in it right there.
Beyond that MS "taking the lead" usually seems to end up with MS unique solutions that are only half-solutions. You end up paying for that in the end with upgrade after upgrade.
How many of the spam e-mails you get in your Yahoo account are from Hotmail addresses? I get 6 to 10 a day from hotmail alone (another bunch from yahoo.com addresses).
I have MSN as my ISP and I get about 30 total on an average day.
fishin'-I am going to check that for a day or two, and get back to you.
I have never got an eMail on my yahoo account, I have never left it anywhere nor used it for anything. My msn account - about 30 messages a day. MSN is not my ISP, but is my homepage.
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