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Eliminate spam.(preventing junk emails)

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| January 25, 2007 | Whitfield, Nigel | COPYRIGHT 2007 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Nigel Whitfield

Eliminate spam

The war on junk email is never-ending, but Nigel Whitfield offers some anti-spam tips

At the start of 2004, Bill Gates made a rash promise: with Microsoft's might, the problem of spam could be elminated in two years. We're all used to Microsoft's deadlines slipping, but a solution to the problem of spam seems further off than ever. The number of junk messages has increased, filtering techniques that seemed to catch most of the rubbish a couple of years ago no longer work, and many of us spend more time than ever filtering the junk from our mailboxes.

Are there any new technologies we could adopt ...

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