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Eliminate spam.(preventing junk emails)
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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