Gates: Buy Stamps to Send E-mail

If the U.S. Postal Service delivered mail for free, our mailboxes would surely runneth over with more credit-card offers, sweepstakes entries, and supermarket fliers. That's why we get so much junk e-mail: It's essentially free to send.

Paying doesn't seem to slow the bulk mailers much. I routinely sort our mail over the wastebasket. I'm appalled at how many trees are killed every year trying to shill credit cards. And this year we get the added crush of those annoying political flyers.

Maybe, Bill, you just ought to fix all those "holes" in all your Microsoft products? Funny, I hear about Outlook and Word enabling viruses to be spread all the time. No one ever points a finger at Eudora or WordPerfect...

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