{"id":116,"date":"2005-04-12T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=116"},"modified":"2005-04-12T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T21:00:44","slug":"bill-gates-hasnt-stopped-spam-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Hasn&#39;t Stopped Spam Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing I didn&#39;t hold my breath as I <a href=\"http:\/\/tim.blog.kosmo.com\/blog\/Spam\/_archives\/2004\/7\/5\/100478.html\">pointed out here<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20050408\/1746226_F.shtml\">From TechDirt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Early last year, Bill Gates announced that he was concentrating on the spam problem and had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20040123\/1951221.shtml\">a few ideas on how to stop the problem<\/a>. Of course, all of those ideas sounded like ideas that others were already trying &#8212; and there was still plenty of spam. It&#39;s now been a year since Bill Gates said that his methods could get rid of spam in two years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/xSP\/article.php\/3496551\">and it&#39;s not clear if his efforts have done very much<\/a>. Certainly, Microsoft has been suing spammers, and some claim that the overall amount of spam has been decreasing a bit. However, we&#39;re still quite a long way from getting rid of spam &#8212; which means the special department at Microsoft whose only job is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20041118\/0125220.shtml\">manage Bill Gates&#39; spam<\/a> (even if it&#39;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20041202\/1547234_F.shtml\">as much<\/a> as we were originally told) will probably still have plenty of work to do a year from now. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing I didn&#39;t hold my breath as I pointed out here!! From TechDirt: Early last year, Bill Gates announced that he was concentrating on the spam problem and had a few ideas on how to stop the problem. Of course, all of those ideas sounded like ideas that others were already trying &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}