{"id":134,"date":"2003-06-02T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-01T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=134"},"modified":"2003-06-02T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-01T20:20:00","slug":"microsoft-containing-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/02\/microsoft-containing-spam","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Containing Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the double entendres. Anyway, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/03\/05\/29\/Microsoft%3A%20Spam%20can%20be%20contained%20within%20two%20years%20(IDGNS)_1.html\">Infoworld article<\/a> quotes Ryan Hamlin, the general manager of Microsoft&#8217;s antispam technology and strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t surprise me at all if we spend close to $18 billion a year next year to deal with spam,&#8221; he said. This cost includes the price of filtering software and storage hardware and other costs. Loss of productivity is not factored in, Hamlin said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An occasional spam might show up, but it is kind of noise and you will just delete it. Spam [fighting] will evolve into a measure-countermeasure cycle similar to the antivirus landscape,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No offense, but the antivirus landscape is abhorrent and a symptom of shoddy security measures in common systems, and $18 billion dollars of market friction isn&#8217;t something that should be tolerated. For reference, 35c per year, by the population of America is around $.07 billion USD, or per person, $60 USD versus 22 US cents wasted per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the double entendres. Anyway, this Infoworld article quotes Ryan Hamlin, the general manager of Microsoft&#8217;s antispam technology and strategy: &#8220;It won&#8217;t surprise me at all if we spend close to $18 billion a year next year to deal with spam,&#8221; he said. This cost includes the price of filtering software and storage hardware and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}