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Article: IS GATES' PREDICTION ON SPAM A BUST?(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 23, 2006
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Byline: TODD BISHOPP-I reporter
IT WAS A PREDICTION that captured the attention of the international media and weary Internet users alike: "Two years from now, spam will be solved," Microsoft's Bill Gates said.
Well, time's up.
As of this week, two years have passed since Gates made that declaration at the 2004 World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Microsoft and others point to progress in the struggle against unwanted e-mail, on several fronts. A Federal Trade Commission report last month concluded that the overall volume of spam "has begun to level off."
But has the problem of spam e-mail been solved?
"Of course it ...