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Microsoft Preps Pay-For Spam Scheme

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Jun 26, 2003
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is continuing his anti-spam war, promising in an interview published on Thursday to implement a Microsoft-Research-developed scheme that would charge spammers for sending junk mail.

Gates also said in the same interview that Microsoft is considering another research-developed technology that would delay by a number of seconds the delivery of spam to users inboxes.

The pay-per-spam scheme is definitely the more radical approach. Microsoft Research (MSR) has been dabbling for years with the concept of making spammers pay: in cash, in compute cycles and/or in memory cycles.

Microsoft Researchs idea for this is called “Penny Black.”

Read More About Penny Black Here

Spam costs users time and network providers money. Microsoft wants to shift the cost burden back onto the spammers.

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