| Gates issues anti-spam call to arms
Microsoft ratcheted up the rhetoric in its war against spam on Tuesday, with chairman Bill Gates calling for government and corporate cooperation to stem the tide of junk email. "Spam is so significant a problem that it threatens to undo much of the good that email has achieved," Gates wrote in one of his periodic email missives to customers. Microsoft has become increasingly active in the anti-spam crusade, most recently filing 15 lawsuits against spammers it said were responsible for sending a collective 2 billion unsolicited messages to Microsoft addresses. The company also has limited spammers' use of Microsoft's free Hotmail service and allowed MSN subscribers to more effectively screen out unwanted messages. Gates said in the letter that Microsoft researchers are working on other technological fixes, including "smart" spam filters for mailboxes that would continuously adapt to keep pace with the latest spam techniques.
Corporations Win Over Democracy: Kucinich Loses Bid to Debate
He's not and never has been a viable candidate. Ron Paul, who also never stood a chance, got 10% in Iowa and yet he was excluded from the Fox News debate. But I didn't hear anybody demand that the Republican front-runners exclude themselves from the debate. .
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