In the latest of his periodic e-mail messages to Microsoft Corp. customers, Bill Gates on Tuesday said the amount of spam clogging corporate networks and users' inboxes is "ridiculous" and detailed the company's plans to help stop the onslaught.
Microsoft recently established a new internal group, the Anti-Spam Technology and Strategy Group, dedicated to finding ways to stop spam from reaching customers. Among the technologies the group is pursuing is a better filter that can adapt to users' preferences and create an anti-spam system unique to each person. A version of this filter will be included in Outlook 2003, and Exchange 2003 has an API for better integration with third-party spam filters.
In his e-mail, titled "Toward a Spam-Free Future," Gates portrays the company's anti-spam effort as part of its larger Trustworthy Computing initiative, saying that "although there's no easy solution, we believe that spam can and must be dramatically reduced."
Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., writes that spam represents a major threat to the productivity gains companies have made in the last decade through the use of e-mail.
News source: eWeek
Microsoft recently established a new internal group, the Anti-Spam Technology and Strategy Group, dedicated to finding ways to stop spam from reaching customers. Among the technologies the group is pursuing is a better filter that can adapt to users' preferences and create an anti-spam system unique to each person. A version of this filter will be included in Outlook 2003, and Exchange 2003 has an API for better integration with third-party spam filters.
In his e-mail, titled "Toward a Spam-Free Future," Gates portrays the company's anti-spam effort as part of its larger Trustworthy Computing initiative, saying that "although there's no easy solution, we believe that spam can and must be dramatically reduced."
Gates, chairman and chief software architect at Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., writes that spam represents a major threat to the productivity gains companies have made in the last decade through the use of e-mail.
News source: eWeek
AIMutation features:
- Plug-ins that add new and exciting features to AIM.
- Transparency on Windows 2000/XP.
- Make transparent windows opaque when they're active.
- Modify the Login Logo with an image of your choice.
- Use Login Logos from skins.
- Log IM conversations
- Add start and finish timestamps to logs.
- Group IM windows into a single tabbed interface.
- Flash IM windows when you receive messages.
- Fast and convenient tab switching through Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut.
- Set IM windows to be 'Always On Top'
- Set 'Always On Top' option automatically for all IM windows.
- Set transparency level automatically for all IM windows.
- Skin AIM with your own graphics!
- Hide the ad window on the buddy list.
- Hide the various buttons on the buddy list.
- Cloning.
- And more to come soon!
Corrupt world we live in these days
And this isn't spam?!
even lamer are people that reply "shutup" to this rant *See Below*
Last edited by 27280 on 26 Jun 2003 - 16:37
I thought, "What the hell, why not?" So I answered their questions. And what do you think happened then? About two weeks later they "spammed" me with a full version CD of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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