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+-   Spammers defy Gates's junk mail predictions-> on Thursday January 22 2009, @04:42PM Slatterz

Submitted by Slatterz on Thursday January 22 2009, @04:42PM
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Slatterz writes "Bill Gates declared in 2004 at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that spam would be "a thing of the past" within five years. However, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, has written in a blog post that "with the prophecy's five-year anniversary approaching, spam continues to cause a headache for companies and home users". "Although the US spam contribution has significantly decreased since Bill Gates's proclamation — falling from almost half of all spam relayed at the end of 2004, to 21.3 per cent by the end of 2007, and now resting at 19.8 per cent...""
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