One suspects the Register had the date pencilled in its diary for quite some time, but it is no less funny, or maybe depressing, for that. At midnight, the hour passed by which Bill Gates pledged two years ago to rid the world of spam.
In an address to the 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Gates announced that Microsoft was investigating three solutions to rid inboxes of unsolicited bulk emails. These centred on small-scale solutions (such as encryption or micro-payments) that would have little effect on individual users while making mass mailings too slow or expensive to be commercially viable. He said it would happen within two years.
But as you may have noticed if you opened your inbox this morning, there is still spam at large in the world today - a sender by the name of danzaid is, for example, in mine asking if I want to "turbocharge" my portfolio.
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