Spammers will pay, vows Gates
MS Watch | at | by Mike
Chairman Gates pledges to bring 'Penny Black' and other MS Research anti-spam technologies to market. 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.