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Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man'
acehole writes "Bill Gates receives up to four million emails a day, and is probably the most spammed person in the world. But unlike ordinary users, he has an entire department to filter unsolicited " At least now I know why he never replies to my requests for an interview ;)
Since he DOES have an entire department creating software to filter out spam, why doesn't he RELEASE said filters and help the rest of the world out? Hell, its MS... why not at least sell it and try to make that department profitable??
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Here's a tip:
When asking for an interview, do not also offer to enlarge his penis. Mox
almost first... bgates@gmail.com
I'm comforted to know that when I use billgates@microsoft.com when signing up for something stupid, or for those sites that require an email for download, he actually gets those emails.
Hmmm, I would have thought more considering all the unpatched Windows boxes out there.
Little Billy boy is not getting all the neat goatse and tubgirl pics I keep sending him. He's missing out on some classic comedy!
I wonder if he gets spam about discounted copies of XP?
I can't say that it breaks my heart.. Maybe Bill should get a gmail account. what is his email anyway, I heard it was billg@microsoft.com..
wonder if he clicks on those "your computer may be infected by a virus"
Bill Gates world's most spammed man
CNN and Rediff are reporting that Bill Gates gets 4 million e-mails a day, making him world's most spammed person. However, unlike lesser mortals, he has an entire department dedicated to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, said Steve Ballmer at a Microsoft Research event in Singapore. Other sources are also reporting the breaking news story.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
More so than president@whitehouse.gov?
Natsu gusa-ya, Tsuwamono domo-ga, Yume no ato
He earns that back within a single day.
Earn up to $5000 a week. I doubt the guy wants a pay cut though.
God spoke to me.
For *once* I have to thank spammers for a job well done.
Now any chance on taking on SCO?
Hmm.. 4,000,000 / 86400 (seconds in a day) = ~ 46 emails a second.
I didn't even know exchange could handle that amount of traffic. And thats just for him..
Well, ever since hotmail upped it's space to 250mb I've been getting the same amount too.
He's so used to spinning he can't even make the most basic of statements without qualifying it. How many people do you think are in charge of going through the billg@microsoft.com email account? A department of 2, perhaps?
Anyway, I'm just pleased that every single time I sign up for anything off the net I use billg@microsoft.com as my email address.
Aren't these just angry clients? :P
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I like how Ballmer has to point out that because he gives out his e-mail address at speeches, he is probably number two. I think his ego is getting too big to fit in Redmond. ("I get more spam than you, I must be more special than you?")
this way, I can make sure nothing important is blocked (as some execs still don't understand how to request to be added to the contact list - a one click process). I've recieved Faxes requesting addition to the list.
In addition, most times, if it is really important. The individual will call to confirm, etc. And I'm sure Mr. Gates knows who to accept calls from.
What does he expect when he keeps sending out those email tracking programs?
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Given an infinite number of monkeys/Microsoft employees with keyboards, infinite time that they could filter Bill Gates e-mail.
-Teiresias
he could try to forward his daily mail to a gmail account to really test spam/virus protection, label classification and how much space is 1gb for that kind of traffic. Even if it works, a good promotion of whatever future service of hotmail is "it performed better than gmail with my mail".
Well, of course with a name like microsoft you're bound to get email for viagra like products... (excuse me... I should have said V1aGR___a)
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Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that takes care of it.
Just when I thought my opinion of Balmer couldn't sink any lower.
-Peter
At what point it won't be cost beneficial to have mail filtering department?
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
And to all of this, I say "big deal". I would say "nice M$ troll" but it's actually kind of weak.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
They must have hate mail confused with spam.
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I know I was wondering just this morning, just after breakfast, how much spam Bill Gates was getting. "Self", I said, "How many unsolicited emails does Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, get, do you think? Two hundred fifty thousand? A million? What DO you think?"
I had no answer.
Until now.
Thank you slashdot.
Yeah? Well I think you're overrated too.
Wow! How much money has he sent to Nigeria so far?
Astro
Well, he should definitely start using mozilla mail client, it's excelent in classifying spam (with help of user with teaching). Can you imagine that excelent performance after learning from few milion spams? :-)
This was BS (before spam).
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Balmer Says: "I receive many pieces of spam (but) only about 10 of them actually make it into my inbox because of the spam technologies that our IT department implements."
:)
Gee...I wonder what software they run?
Undoubtedly Gates is just like thousands of other executives; he has assistants who read his email for him. An executive of a company as large and powerful as Microsoft hardly would have time to read and respond to the typical 300-500 emails one gets in a day, let alone the thousands or millions he gets from being famous. I feel sorry for the guy, in a way; he used to be a computer geek just like so many others and he's cut off from part of the internet just by virtue of his success.
It does sound like an excellent opportunity to leverage some of that computer brainpower they have and create some first class spam filtering technology. With a test base of 4 million spams a day they have all the sample data they will ever need.
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
I was making billions and could pretty do whatever I wanted. A little off topic but I remember the episodes on SNL more specifically the one about Gates buying Christmas. His biggest dilemma was what to call it, I think it was Micromas or Christmasoft.
I say we just grow up, be adults and die.
Your job must suck ass if it, in its entirety, involves sorting through another man's porn/real estate/penis enlargment/cum filled panty spam.
I can see it now, job description:
Must be able to sort legitimate email from mass unsolicited email. Ability to tolerate apes a plus, as you will be working a team of them. In fact, your department manager is a chimp. Requires opposable thumbs and general image recognition abilities.
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"And so we have special technology which just filters (spam)."
And what do you call this special technology? What a brilliant new development. Please, Mr. Balmer, you must share this invention with the rest of us. Or, perhaps, is it "sendmail" on "linux" running "spamassassin"? Ah, yes, perhaps so.
Maybe the admins at my work are just braindead, but apparently everyone's so nervous about Exchange 2000 that they won't run any other mail related software on the Exchange server. So if we want to filter email with other software, it goes on a separate box, and they all get chained together. Which means that if they ever want to find out where an email came from, they have to go through three different sets of logs. This is all black magic to me. I code VBA for a living.
Is there a right way on Exchange 2000? We'd do all kinds of better spam filtration if implementation was completely better.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
....ought to be about enough for anyone. ;-)
For example, how much spam does the Whitehouse get?
Do they cite the number of spams the average person gets? There is nothing other than the obvious in that article.
The article might have well said it is probably cold in Antartica too.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Wow! He could have the world's largest penis!
He's tormenting Satan's earthly representative!
In related news, Mr. Gates was reportedly heard to have exclaimed, "Four million emails ought to be enough for anybody!"
Although this quote has not yet been confirmed, the next generation Microsoft operating system, code-named Longhorn, is expected to require a boot disk to access any email after 4,096,000.
Stay tuned for more breaking news.
Somebody should tell him to install Thunderbird.
Simpy
He must get quite a few offers from nice businessmen in Nigeria who need help getting their money out of the country.
Bill helps them out..
Profit!
Repeat millions of times over.. and ca-ching!
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I think it's more some advertising news for Bill Gates than anything else. I mean, The world richest man can at least afford one of thoses babies which can handles 25 millions mail/days
I need a Sino-Logic 16. Sogo-7 data-gloves, a GPL stealth module...
billg@microsoft.com is not his "real" email address. You think he would be that stupid to use something so obvious. If you really want to contact him it's moneyg69@aol.com
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
sounds good to me, maybe he can learn from that.
It's rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email directly then maybe you should be fired for wasting his time.
That said, after going to an intern dinner at his house I wrote him afterwards asking a question I was sure no one else care about if I acked it at the dinner, I got a relatively quick if not short response.
Another intern friend of mine emailed him asking if he wanted to go to lunch sometime and never got a response.
I've also had some other funny run ins with Bill Gates while interning at MS that I wrote up a while ago in my journal
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
For a mere $19.99/year Bill can avoid all of this spam using MSN's super bad ass spam filtration device. Read the EULA though
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It is rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email then maybe you deserve to be fired for wasting his time.
That said after an intern dinner at his place I wrote him an email asking about his house, a question I was sure no one else at the dinner would really care about. Not too long later I got a short though informative response from Bill. It was in the first person and since it concerned his house I was pretty sure it was from him directly.
An intern friend wrote him and asked him to go to lunch but never got a response, not sure if he got rehired.
A while ago I wrote about some other funny run ins with Bill in my journal
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Neal Stephenson, here is the title of your next book!
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Sounds like he needs to start using tmda or some challenge response system. Seems like that would be cheaper than having a whole team filter your email, unless that team is outsourced.
"Tempers are wearing thin. Let's just hope some robot doesn't kill everybody." --Bender
I'm surprised that president@whitehouse.gov isn't on the list. It would be interesting to see a top ten list of the worlds most spammed email addresses.
Here is a letter he wrote to the Senate regarding spam. What a choad.
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I hope his pee cee gets lots of viruses too. :-)
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Funny thing is, most of these e-mails are for solutions on how to get rich quick or get out of debt. I wonder what his thoughts are about that.
Who said the slashdot effect is only for HTTP servers?
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Bill Gates receives up to four million emails a day, and is probably the most spammed person in the world
He must have a huge penis then..
"Ballmer said he was "probably also amongst the most spammed people in the world"'
He can't let BillG have one over on him can he?
It's kind of sad, while Bill Gates strives to be as cool as Steve Jobs, Ballmer wants to be cool like Gates. Dude, we've seen the video, you ain't as cool as Bill Gates.
It's so easy to write off hate-mail as spam. I do it all the time:-)
That man has far far too much money.
Ah, poor Bill, my heart bleeds.
"Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
To improve my spam filtering, I'm going to take a lesson from Bill and hire a small department in India to filter my emails.
This is so sad.
I thought I'd send Mr William Gates a brief cheer-up note:
I mean I know he's rich and everything, but even rich guys must get the blues sometimes over things like spam. I'm sure he'd appreciate it if a few of us sent him our condolences.
Does anybody know his address?
He got only 200 emails a day
I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and dial again.
of Billy G sitting in front of his computer with his tongue hanging out of his mouth, surfing porn and obviously signing up for every porn website he finds. I mean why else would he be getting hundreds of thousands of emails an hour?
You can't handle the truth.
Damn, I was hoping it would say that he's gotten the most "spam javellined" man on earth award. He deserves it. ;-)
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See this article, billg@microsoft.com did exist and in 1993 you could email him and get a reply, but even back then it wasn't Bill Gates.
Cool, so Bill Gates is kind of ironic proof how much more efficient electronic business communication is. He just doesn't know how bad the spam problem is.
This reminds me of Erich Honecker, who didn't know anything about what the real situation of his country was. He had a full departement working on keeping the illusion of a prosper and healthy communist system alive. He believed it until the very end.
Presumably is Ballmer is giving out his email address at speaking events, he's doing so to encourage feedback. But if only 10 emails are actually read... is his request for feedback a hoax?
Microsoft maybe evil but Bill Gates is not. He has done much to elevate the state of computer technology, single handedly. He has not taken his personal politics to his company, whatever that maybe.
...and Mr Gates gets so much SPAM ... because he signs up to more internet pr0n sites than any other man in America!
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Since Mr William Gates is commonly known to be the custodian of an exceptionally small penis, perhaps some of us might care to help him out, since he has so many dogsbodies-in-waiting to ensure that sincere offers come to his attention...
Heh, has he been on hotmail recently? You get spam reminding you to read your spam.
Perhaps the reason he won't do an interview is because of Slashdot's juvenile vitriolic hate toward him and Microsoft? Anyone remember "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" as well as all the "New Microsoft Hole" articles about user-run executable attachments?
He won't do it because he knows he won't get a fair shake here no matter what.
I think what he said may have been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I'm sure billg is a valid addy, but it's more for historic purposes. One would assume that Gates is intelligent enough to have more than 1 email address...and perhaps not tell anyone except those from whom he wants to receive mail?
"I receive many pieces of spam (but) only about 10 of them actually make it into my inbox because of the spam technologies that our IT department implements."
Nice to see Steve uses Spambayes, just like me!
#1 a@b.com
#2 "asdfafdsf@asdfdafhaasad.com"
So why doesn't he just change his real email address to bill.gates@microsoft.com or something that's not publicly published yet, and have the servers bounce the billg one? Sounds like he's not much of a practical solutions kind of guy.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
> I heard it was billg@microsoft.com.
Are you sure it's billg@microsoft.com ? Because to me, billg@microsoft.com doesn't sound right. Perhaps it's bill.gates@microsoft.com or even billgates@microsoft.com , who knows. Anyway, I'm gonna say that billg@microsoft.com is a good possibility, and say billg@microsoft.com once again just for the fun of it.
All I need now is a good mod so the spam engines will get my post about billg@microsoft.com
Well now I know why those Nigerians never send me the money they email me about, Gates is ending up with all of it.
I wonder what spam folder all the Anti-Trust Lawsuits go under? --- How well does he trust him anti-spam team? --- "OOOOH, SORREEEE!! I only created THE UNIVERSE!!! You're right, I should be out running LAPS." -God
how many of those e-mail are truly spam (i.e. - blanket unsolicited e-mails) versus how many are "solicited" on Mr. Gates' behalf by others trying to avoid user identification (or just trying to make his life less convenient.) I wouldn't really qualify the latter as spam.
Aww man... Now I almost feel bad for setting the "anonymous FTP password" on every browser I touch to "bgates@microsoft.com".
Probably not his real email address, but still, he apparently doesn't need any more help.
Microsoft has an entire department that spends almost all of it's time to spam. The hyperbole on the journalists part was stating that this department works soley on Bill Gates email, when in reality the department that they were refering to was either an IT department that ran the mail servers for the company, or a development department that spent most of their time working on advanced spam filtering techniques.
if subject = {penis/breast/viagra/vioxx/discount } forward to linus (at) transmeta.com
Examples : "an excellent opportunity to use some of that power". Conversely : "this tire iron gives me great leverage".
In those cases where you think "use" is too feeble, try "harness", "employ", "embrace" et al
People who use "leverage" when they mean "use" just sound like those sales droids who only speak in buzz-words.
Maybe billg@microsoft.com they used billg@microsoft.com standard web harvesters billg@microsoft.com to find his address billg@microsoft.com to add to their database billg@microsoft.com.
P.S. billg@microsoft.com.
Ignore all the expensive BS penis enlargement products that UCEs try to sell you. All you need is a Gillette Venus for Women razor, which is similar to the Mach 3 you may already use on your face but tweaked for shaving larger areas. Just take the razor and shave the part of the pubic hair from the base of the penis straight up to the navel. More exposed skin in a straight line with the penis creates an illusion of more penis.
Especially with things like this, and this.
Sorry but IMHO the guy deserves it...(Or it might be my reaction to the news...)
I'b be interested to now if they use Outlook. I know a significant portion of those will be the latest viruses. Another huge portion is hate mail.
With BillG getting so much, why haven't they built it into outlook. Why are they dicking us sroud with their attemp at Sender/Caller ID.
It seems that technology is a joke to them. They really could be doing better.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
Mind you, Bill did once reply personally (and *fast*) to a communication I sent him, but so long ago that there was no email as we know it: I sent him a telex!
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and not millions of notes saying "I'm going to kill you", or "you took away my job you "Q/=()$%" or simply "screw you".
By the way, what's his e-mail, anyway? *evil grin* I wonder if posting his e-mail on slashdot would be a bad idea at all... MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!
*sighs* Oh well, it was funny while it lasted. *combs himself*
I wonder if he gets any of those "Bill Gates will send you money" chain letters.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I cant even believe that an exchange server can handle 4 million emails in a day. that box must be on fire all the time.
Someone send him a Gmail invite!
I've heard both of those addresses. I think I read about them in a book by him, and that the 'askbill' one was for employees who can just drop him a line and ask him a question or tell him about their project or something, and the 'billg' one was the generic address.
Esli epei etot cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
You get it wrong, he does have a department to filter his spam, that's a building full of ppl doing it by hand
After all, thousands of spammers can't be wrong. Bill Gates must have the world's smallest dick. It explains so much really.
Go to mailinator.com, grab an autogenerated address, and use that. Easier than spamgourmet, and no signup needed - but also no privacy.
GOOD! And I'll also bet $10 that he lets anything that promises to make his penis larger get through as well.
Spinmiester Ballmer says:
"Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that takes care of it."
Well, is it "literally" or not? Is it a "whole department" or part of one? Did you just make this up on the spot and then have second thoughts about it in mid-sentence? Does Microsoft literally give a rat's ass about their customers, sort of, almost?
...Sending spam to an address that has 24-hour access to nuclear weapons.
Chip H.
sarcasm
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
This article assumes that Bill Gates is someone important in the email world. Is he? I don't think so. He didn't invent email. His company didn't invent email. In fact, Microsoft's level of innovation in the email space is exactly zero. So why do we care how much spam he gets? Yes, he's one of the world's most hated people, and his email address is widely known. So what?
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Uhh, I think I would have changed me email address a long, long time ago.
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Signed,
Bill Gates
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
what with his 'micro soft' problem.
Wow! The world's most spammed man! He must have the hugest penis, no credit problems whatsoever, and an endless supply of discount software!
TheSun is what i call a newspaper for Ken and Barby, reflecting the depth of the souls reading it. Some say TheSun is more for smarter ppl these days. I guess they might have a point here as in these times its wise to be rather superficial.
Robert
How many of those messages come from either @msn.com or @hotmail.com.
That would be poetic justice.
I was assured our communication was being carried out "in the most strict possible" and I was "exclusive partner" -- I smell a rat.
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1) Drop the 10 zeros
.025 seconds.
2) 4*3=12
3) Put the 10 zeros back: 120,000,000,000
4) Move the decimal point one place left: 12,000,000,000
Done. Mental clculation time
You must be from a red state - if it's too abstract, try thinking it as numbers of beer bottles or daid skunks.
I definitely want that training.dat. Anyone knows if it has leaked?
Well, it's just been conclusively demonstrated that a lot more people in the US admire Bush than not.
:-)
BZZZT. Thanks for playing, but next time bring your thinking cap with you.
Maybe: "...more people who voted in the US...."
Or: "...admire Bush than the other alternatives presented in the election."
How you get from "voted for" to "admire" is beyond me, too. But that's a different topic. Also, I won't even think about getting into the tinfoil hat possibility of "...more voting machine programmers admire...."
Somehow I don't think a cabinet-level DEPARTMENT is handling the White House email. Can you imagine the Senate-confirmation hearings for that job LOL?
"Today President Bush nominated Sanford Wallace as Secretary of the Inbox. He faces a rough road in the Senate, given his past history. Mr. Wallace and the President both agree that his previous career makes him uniquely suited for the job."
Seriously, I bet the Prez gets a lot of spam too. I wonder how many of the V1ag-ra ads are addressed to "President Bill Clinton?"
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I used to work in the marketing department of a CRM company. Occasionally, I'd do a search to see what sorts of fake addresses were in the database. Billg@microsoft.com was the most common address. However, BartSimpson@fox.com and president@whitehouse.gov were probably in second and third place. I tried to remove those addresses from the database, but only special people had such authorization and the company saw no value in purging bogus addresses unless the owner of the bogus address made the request. They did not seem to understand that having 20% junk in their database added to the cost of direct email campaigns. Oh well. I don't work for *them* anymore.
-- SYS 64738 --
More specifically, spammers infecting new zombie PCs included an anti-SCO DDoS in their worms' payload.
Don't thank them too soon, though. It's impossible to hurt SCO through the internet, since they haven't needed a net presence since they transformed from a software company into a lawsuit company. It is possible to hurt Linux's PR when crap like this happens, though, by helping SCO's efforts to associate us with "evil hackers" stereotypes.
Did anyone else get the impression that the mystery technology the Ballamer was talking about was just a small cubicle farm of people going through things???
Maybe we could take all those monkeys with typewriters and teach them to filter spam instead of letting them continue to think that Romeo and Juliet was their idea.
The Digital Sorceress
Really, Bill should listen to his spam once and a while ;-)
IT IS ALL LIES DO NOT TRUST TIS MAN HE IMPOSTER. MY FRIEND I WILL CONTACT YOU WITH THIS MATTER AGAIN SOON
MUBUTU MUBATE
This is random babble to circumvent that annoying lameness filter that hits me with this, "Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING." Very nice touch but its on my way and must be destroyed before I can enjoy my 15 minutes.
For extra effect you really need to make it a hyperlink and put some good keywords with it
Steve Balmer steveb@microsoft.com
Steve Balmer doesn't understand the word "literally". He just threw it in thinking he sounds fashionable using it, totally oblivious to the fact that it completely defeated his poor attempt at humor.
./ers some geek fun.
Any interpretation otherwise would be met with these questions:
Why wouldn't Bill Gates change an email address?
Why would Bill Gates be more spammed than the other top 100 richest people in the world, who together would probably contribute to 50% of all spams if this report or what Balmer said hold any water.
Balmer was clearly trying to humorous hype their (in reality worthless) spam filtering capabilities, albeit his attempts are awkward at best (within his usual style though). Nonetheless, it clearly gave
... but if you trash them you will never know. Maybe a good percentage is made by offenses, f**k offs, mailing from Linux user groups and bug reports!:-)
Maybe computers will never become as intelligent as humans. For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-89]
...considering that most of that spam is coming from 0wned Windoze boxes.
Now you know when windows says it has encountered an error and would like to report the information back to Microsoft, someone is getting that information.
I'm sure there are worse jobs in tech than manually filtering Bill and Steve's email, but I'm struggling to think of them. Russell www.mobile-weblog.com
...Microsoft uses g5s
Please stop stalking me, bro.
someone should explain to ballmer that complaints and outlook viruses are not spam
Who wants to bet he is using thunderbird. I never get any SPAM now that i have it.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
The department responsible for filtering spam applies their efforts not just to Billy's inbox, but to the inboxes of employees throughout the company. That's 10s of thousands of developers and other staff. I'd say it justifies the existence of a department.
I'm sure there's crossover between the Exchange group and ITG on this matter.
As an inseresting project, I'd like to know how many messages it takes to fill Gmail's inbox with spam, as well as the spam filtering. Sign up how.much.spam.is.a.gig@gmail.com to all the places that send spam and see how long it takes to fill it up!
We have a new Zaphod Beeblebrox[sp]:
"Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates."
He's the guy you know!
bash$
Is there anyway Mr. Gates could receive fewer than 46 spams per second? No, it makes perfect sense. At any time, one or two compromised desktops would do it.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
he'd be a billionaire!
I wonder if they are archiving it all someplace.
No
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Its good to know that one of the individuals that helps encourage spam via open mail relays is getting hit the most. I guess Bill G will never
learn that secure by default is not just a novelty concept.
On a side note: Why doesn't Bill use the spam filter that is built in to Outlook? I guess some potentials would be:
1) Because its crap, that is why he has an entire department manually sorting his emails, he can't afford to loose anything important, however; the rest of the world can loose their junk.
2) He has trouble finding qualified people to configure his spam filter.
3) Because he likes to waste money.
4) He likes to encourge the use of Exchange servers by setting an example.
5) Because he wants to make sure he gets all his pr0n sent directly to his home account. (see item two).
6) Doing his part to help build the next generation internet because of all the congesting that he alone creates. Now imagine if the world started using MS products; imagine the congestion that.... wait.... sorry about the last point...
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/1 355229
He could cut that by 75% just by turning off auto preview.
This is hype. Gates is advertising that he has a personal interest in defeating Spam. It is a contradiction to say that Microsoft will end all Spam in 2 years... while in the same sentence arguing that legislating to fine spammers is the best approach. If Gates really did have a way to end spam in 2 years, there would be no reason for wanting to fine spammers, since they would be as ineffectual. Capisce?
The Custom Mary
How many people really think Bill uses (or even monitors) billgates@microsoft.com or any of the variants e.g. bgates, bill.gates etc. My guess is that would have several email addresses that are given to different people based on how "important" they are. Steve Balmer is probably the only one who knows about billgates@hotmail.com ... DOH!
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
His penis must be absolutely enormous by now
But that makes total sense - not to waste your time spaming .gov and .edu domains.
does billyG even want an email address? What:s the secretary for?
He gets 4 million emails a day. I'm sure 3.9 million of them are spam. However, 100,000 of them are almost certainly emails that are unique, and not easily filterable. Why in the hell wouldn't it require basically a whole department (by which I mean > 30 people, probably more like 100) to filter out the 100 emails that deserve a decision maker's opinion, and the 20 that require BillG himself to look at them?
All we have is the machine code. We can read that, but there aren't any comments.
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I'm not!
Dammit if Bill Gates is getting 4megaspam per day it finally gives a justification for spam