On Jan. 24, 2004, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates famously announced that by 2006, "spam will 
be solved." He was right. As I write this, 2006 is almost over and I’ve solved my spam problem. (Gates is still working on his.)
Everyone has spam issues, but I’m sure I have more than most. I’m constantly on the road and use my phone for e-mail, which means I can’t always use PC-based antispam software. Other antispam tools also aren’t useful to me because, as a writer who covers technology, I need to be reachable via e-mail by readers, public relations people and others. I can’t just create a whitelist and block everyone else, nor can I afford to change my e-mail address every year. Half the e-mail I get comes from people I don’t know.
Then there’s the issue of sheer quantity. In the past 10 years I’ve published newsletters, edited magazines and written articles. As a result, my e-mail address is published online on hundreds, maybe thousands, of Web pages. I must be on every spammer list ever created. How I nuked mobile spam