One Man’s Attempt To Stamp Out Spam Ends With A Lesson - 07/03/05

One Man’s Attempt To Stamp Out Spam Ends With A Lesson - 07/03/05

By Ariana Eunjung Cha | The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — In 2003, Meng Wong and a friend wrote a program with the bold goal of helping to save e-mail. Wong, a 29-year-old tech entrepreneur, worried that the worldwide message system was in danger of being overwhelmed by spam, phishing and other online scourges. He released the software on the Internet for everyone to use for free.

It drew the notice of software giant Microsoft Corp., which had been working on a similar product of its own. Nearly a dozen other companies — including Yahoo Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. — also were trying to come up with a way to make the e-mail system more reliable, but none could agree on a common approach.

4 July, 2005 |

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