...see?


It would be nice, but in the world of computers, somebody will find a way around this. There's always a way around this kind of stuff. I think Gates is wasting his time. But I don't think he's wasting his money...

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

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Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

Agreed.

I'm liking that "fee to the recipient" idea, though.

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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of old men are the vices of peace: mistrust and caution. It must be so.
-Laurence of Arabia

I must say, I am impressed by how well Hotmail has recently done in getting rid of spam. I've received maybe...four...spam messages in the past week.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

Not everything bad in computers lives forever, boot viruses and Realplayer didn't.

Yeah, we're gonna see the postal service take over emailing soon.. I just know it

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

bulls***. Always another way. SPAM SPAMS SPAM. HAHAHAHHAHAH.

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Madquack and Firbnic have a signature.
*Remnant Temple beta almost done*
Light And Darkness

Does anybody out there actually buy products that they see in spam e-mail? Because, theoretically, if there was nobody buying anything from the spamming companies, then they would stop sending spam.

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Death to all who oppose me!

They just need that one idiot to make a profit.

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"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
-Robert Jastrow

Gates is a fool. Theres no chance of MS "defeating spam", and certainly not within 2 years. In 20, MAYBE, but not 2.




Uhh . . . Realplayer is still around...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

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I love how all of these solutions don't require the myriad of ISPs to update their email servers. Because they never do.

I dunno look at the spam artists at AOL. Constantly sending out free CDs, and yet I doubt very many really use them. Well obviously most probably use them to get free accounts so they can troll around things and whatnot, but other than that?...

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

We like to pretend it's not.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

It doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Bll Gates is silly.

Lets spam him.

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"It was a slap in the face, how quickly I was replaced".
"Do you remember telling me you'd hold me until you died (until you died)... well you're still alive"

"I just love it when you stick your tongue in my brain, darling"

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Heheh.. Speaking of spamming Gatesy.

Last year in gym class, this jockish guy I knew from middle school (we're both in high School now, I hate him as much now as I did then) said, "Zac, (me) I need you to do me a favor."
"Yess..?"
"I need you to hack into Bill Gates' computer and get his email address."
<hardly able to contain laughter> "Oook.. why?"
"I have a great idea for him."

Hehe.. Itw as funny. He spent the next week trying to convince me to use my magical "hax0r.exe" program to get his email addy.

Funnies.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

I'M CALLING THE COPS!

/me runs off

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/me h@x0rz MW's phones..

No coppers for j00!

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

The only spam I get in my hotmail account is from Microsoft.

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AGONetwork

Some people have to realize something:

Bill Gates is not, never has been, and will not for quite a while, stupid. He has as much money as he does for a reason, and its not neccessarily just because of the monopoly. Although GBK has something to say about his Linux stuff, and although I'm being somewhat hypocritical writing this from a Mac, there's a reason why the majority of people own a PC. Bill Gates could have made millions upon millions of mistakes, and somehow it seems like he has done nothing wrong yet (obviously he has made some mistakes, but not nearly as many as ya'all credit him for), but everything he plans to do is destined to fail. Its ridiculous.

It was cute for a bit I guess, but all there is a plethora of this "BILL GATES IS SATAN" talk going around, and its completely unecessary.

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To myself I surrender to the one I'll never please.
But I still try to run on.
You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

Eddie Vedder

Eversor, I called Bill Gates a fool because he actully believes that his damned company can 'rid the word of spam'. Its an absurd notion that only goes to show how much crack this guy has been smoking lately.


...Hrm, I had the really great speach laid out about how MS isnt really evil . . . but I wont want this to turn into a flamewar....

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Just to put in my two cents about this whole thing..

I DESPISE SPAM! it's just a fact of internet life that I hate. Now, I have a hotmail account with the highest security on the junk mail filter, so only people who are on my safe list get to my inbox, which does help. but after time, the spam still accumulates in my junk mail folder and if I don't check in even a week the number climbs to over 500 emails!!!

I've had this email for a good 5 years, so that might be a reason why there's so much spam. But Honestly.... Companies that have to resort to bothering people in EVERY Single aspect of their lives (including online) are obviously pretty desperate for business! And if you look at the AMOUNT of spam, that's a lot of desperate companies; and don't even TRY and get me started on chain letters.. they're not even automated and they piss me off too!! The people who start them obviously have no time on their hands... or they're playing a joke, but in that case it's funny.


Ok, enough of that...

To comment on the whole Bill Gates thing, I'll give him credit for being a very intelligent man, but I think he also has to realize that the rest of the world has started catching up with him. There will always be spam, to the disappointment to more than a few people.. With the development of new computer systems and new technologies constantly accelerating, there's no way to stop Spam dead in it's tracks, it's just something we'll have to live with.

I think I'll live with my Junk mail filter...

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Fragment Thoughts consume my vision.

I believe you misspelled profit.

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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation...

....Microsoft has a much better chance of affecting spam than the Linux afficionados do. World's largest company vs. a group that's too disorganized to keep their kernel from speciating? Care to explain your logic, or will you just sob and post another rant about how making a profit is evil?

If anybody has a chance to solve this problem, it's Microsoft. Deal.

Printing chips to silicon wafers was an absurd idea. How can stopping junk mail be any more absurd?

Also stop insulting someone who operates a buisiness that thrives on intelligence and ingenunity. Gates knows more about software than you think, kiddo. He's been a nerd longer than you've been alive.

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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation...

I admit he must have had some real smarts back in the day. But now he's just a stupid greedy jerk driven by the $. No real care to the customers or anything, just as long as he can get money from Windows and the several things you will need to "stabilize" it.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

I can't believe some of you people. No matter what Bill Gates does, you just laugh at him and call him stupid. At least he's ****ing trying to DO something about spam. Microsoft probably has the best chance of anybody of halting the endless flow of Junk E-mail.

It doesn't seem like a radical idea, anti-spam has been around for years. I haven't gotten any spam in a very long time.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

No wonder I no longer am getting alot of e-mails. This started when my mom said to stay off the computer forever (lasted a few weeks), and I noticed when I got on, I never had e-mail. I thought I broke it.

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

Yeah and PDP-11's are still around, but do they get used?

Its ironic the only email I got today was from MSN gaming zone.

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I must say Hotmail has done well in de-spamming my Inbox - daily I get a lot of annoying loans and finance e-mails etc. etc. which get plonked automatically into my Junk Folder... I can remember a dark time when my masculine self received an e-mail asking me if I wanted breast implants... the world is far less mad now - thank God!

Whatever Bill, Sir Bill or whoever is up to, I applaud him for trying to tackle these nuisance people.

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"So... Graham Andrew Rutland [Gee_4ce]... well, it says here that Graham and Andrew mean... strong and manly!" - My girl Naomi whilst consulting a big book of names...