'Bad Guys are Winning' Despite Fight Against Spam

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The International Herald Tribune.

[snip]

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.

[snip]

More:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/05/business/spam.php

- - ferg

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