Bill Gates isnt all bad afterall

[Bigjakkstaffa]

http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-1008862.html?tag=fd_top

--Jakk

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Yeah, Microsoft will write a program that stops junk email but will cost your eye...

[comp_nut]

hi
I agree I smell money, big time


cheers

[Philip1952]

Specifically, he proposed that Congress back a "trusted seal" program that would require senders to identify themselves

Here you go all spamers can register with MS and pay for the right to send you even more spam. Unless we pay MS to stop it.

MS gets money from both sides.

[Aznmask]

Ya man that why i dont use Hotmail (received so many junk mail)

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I used to have a hotmail account and besides getting a lot of junk email, the hotmail system would crash all the times. Sometimes I couldn't log in, sometimes I couldn't send emails, etc. Yahoo! is much better and I don't get junk email at all.

[cbh]

I also use Yahoo! mail since my polytechnic years.

[mrt1212]

the assertion that bill gates was bad to begin with...is ridiculious

[Bigjakkstaffa]

the assertion that bill gates was bad to begin with...is ridiculious

True, it shoudl have read 'Pure Evil' instead

(I eagerly await ngc to come in and throw a dickyfit)

--Jakk

[KenKeith]

If a law or regulation is passed that is consistent (federal law) as opposed to different state laws that would be a good start.

"Trusted Seal" that is federally sanctioned and an establishment of a global, independent trust authority to initiate and regulate a set of best practices should not lost on Gates having input.

I view it as more of bureacracy problem than a windfall if any for Gates. Third-party apps for filtering is certainly open to competition.

[stix_kua]

I tend to have junk mail in my Yahoo inbox than anywhere else...

I've actually liked hotmail

[Slade54]

Ive yet to receive spam in my Yahoo account.

But you also must look at it this way.

Spam accounts for much of the bandwidth that Hotmail has to handle. And accounts for some of the bandwidth that MSN handles.

Cut out spam, Gates saves money.

So even if he doesnt make money directly from whatever hes trying to pull off, he still saves money (as with every other ISP and email account company in existance) and everyone (cept spammers, may they burn in hello) is happy.

"and there was much rejoicing *yay*"

[Timmac4]

Sorry a little off subject, but don't you guys worry about once the government gets involved with stopping spam they will start taxing emails and such? I think the less they have to do with things the better. The start of the internet was probably just a couple of guys who thought of a way to make their computers communicate with each other, and that's where I think it should stay for as long as possible. If you think about it every peice of content on the web was donated by one person or company. Let's keep te goverments away.

[Slade54]

Thats a very paraniod thing to think.

its like that one law ppl thought was going to be passed. The one that said that the post office was gonna start taxing email.

The government cant really tax it. It may tax your ISP bill, but it cant really tax your email considering it is part of a service, and not the service itself.

[mireland]

Originally posted by mrt1212
the assertion that bill gates was bad to begin with...is ridiculious