clipped from: www.guardian.co.uk Hunched over his computer keyboard in a London suburb, Steve Linford is fighting a desperate war. The numbers ranged against him are growing and he fears he may be losing.
Linford is one of the world's foremost fighters of spam - random emails that plague all our inboxes. For people like him such 'junk' mail is not just a nuisance, it is a menace that could bring the email system juddering to a halt. He thinks we may have only six months left. 'The email system is on the edge of meltdown,' he said.
Internet service providers are becoming jammed. Linford believes the network will soon begin to slow down, then many emails will get lost, followed by the entire global system crashing. Spam will have destroyed the most revolutionary communications system since the telephone.