80 percent of experts think Gates ridding spam within 2 years is unrealistic |
A survey of IT security professionals conducted at the Infosecurity show in London this week revealed that more than 80 percent of people do not think that Bill Gates’ pledge to eliminate spam within two years is realistic.
It may indeed not be realistic, but if Longhorn comes with some killer built-in anti-spam functions then it could certainly cripple the spam flow. I’m just happy that he’s concerned about it and has made some sort of deadline that we all can look forward to — even if the deadline shows only minor improvement. Along the lefthand side of this blog there is a counter for the number of days (642 as of this writing) until Bill Gates rids the web of spam. Go get ‘em Mr. Gates!
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[…] Two years ago at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland Bill Gates was reported as predicting that spam would be dead in two years, then one year ago I pointed out that 80% of experts said his prediction was unrealistic. Yesterday, Todd Bishop from the Seattle PI points out that the time is up and — surprise, surprise, not — the prediction came up short. […]
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