Is Open-Source Software a Solution to Spam?

By VINCENT KIERNAN

"Free." That word held enormous appeal for Jack Suess two years ago. That was when his institution, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, decided to use open-source software to cope with spam.

Students and faculty and staff members were complaining loudly about the spam clogging their e-mail boxes. But UMBC, like many other institutions, was laboring...

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