Spam’s End? Maybe, if Time Allows

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Twenty-five years ago Steven T. Kirsch built a better mouse. Now he believes he has found a way to create a better trap , for spam, not mice , if he has enough time to finish his project.


An M.I.T. trained engineer, Mr. Kirsch was frustrated by the quality of the first computer mice in 1982, so he set out to improve them by incorporating an optical sensor. Recently he has taken on the challenge of e-mail spam. This year he founded Abaca, a company with a new approach in the crowded market for stopping junk electronic mail.


Abaca has taken on a new urgency for Mr. Kirsch , during the summer, he was discovered to have a rare form of blood cancer,



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