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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/1454/spam-on-its-way-out/

Spam on Its Way Out

January 24, 2004 by

In two years, says Bill Gates, spam will be a thing of the past.

{ 4 comments }

Franklin Harris January 25, 2004 at 10:57 am

“No one will ever need more than 640k of memory” -Bill Gates, 1985.

David Heinrich January 25, 2004 at 5:20 pm

It is funny that the same Bill Gates who said “no-one will ever need more than 640k” and who derided the usefulness of the Internet is now trying to fund a memory-intensive way to deal with SPAM. Despite thinking that MS products are sub-par, and that — all in all — one would be better off going with their competitor (Linux), I think this is a good idea, because it requires SPAMmers to use resources to send spam.

David January 26, 2004 at 1:06 am

“No one will ever need more than 640k of memory.”

Actually, Bill Gates never said this, and it’s very unlikely that he would have every said such a thing becuase, to quote Bill himself, “No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time” – after all, the continued growth of Microsoft requires a continuous increase in computer memory.

Danny January 26, 2004 at 12:48 pm

That gibberish in your in-box may be good news (NYT): Earlier this month, when Internet experts met in Cambridge, Mass., for the 2004 Spam Conference (available as a Web broadcast at Spamconference.org), they showed just how far the science of spam fighting has come. For all the recent talk of suing spammers and compiling a national do-not-spam list, most speakers were putting their hopes in technological, not legal solutions. The federal government’s new junk e-mail law, the Can Spam Act, barely rated a mention.

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