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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.
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..
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.
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?")
What does he expect when he keeps sending out those email tracking programs?
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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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I thought president@whitehouse.gov was just an alias to vice-president@whitehouse.gov :)
Anyone else having a problem imagining Little Bush actually using a computer?
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
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.
--Nuintari
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....ought to be about enough for anyone. ;-)
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
I hope his pee cee gets lots of viruses too. :-)
Stick Men
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?
I used to work for Oracle. I once sent Larry a rather critical email. I didn;t get sacked or a reply, either, so I don't know if he got it.
Oracle internal email system used to be so crap that it got confused if people had the same first name and sent them each others email. I shared the same first name with the VP of Consulting for EMEA (I was working in Hamburg at the time). I once received an email from Big Man's secretary to him asking if he wanted to confirm his meeting with some IBM execs. I replied to her saying that she should tell IBM to Bugger Off and to get on the phone to the head of consulting in Hamburg and to give that Phil guy a large pay rise.
A couple of days later my boss called me into his office and told me "Please don't do that again"
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.
if subject = {penis/breast/viagra/vioxx/discount } forward to linus (at) transmeta.com
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!
Signed,
Bill Gates
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Verbing weirds language.
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Good plan, but whatever you do, do NOT use Nair. It began as a semi-pleasant tingle, then it felt like the fires of hell combined with the ice of the south pole, all fighting for delivering the maximum amount of pain to my scrotum.
i use linux and windows oh god how can i have an opinion
Nah, I'm from a democratic country.