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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 ;)
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.
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More so than president@whitehouse.gov?
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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.
Ooops.. sounds like postmaster@microsoft.com might get even more :)
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
Right, and he could also forward his daily mail to the DOJ, so there aren't any more losses of that pesky incriminating evidence...
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
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.
anyone know Ballmer's?
let's see... GMail gives 1000 MB for mail storage (including spam)
:)
1000 MB * 2^10 KB/MB * 2^10 B/KB = 1,048,576,000 bytes
1,048,576,000 bytes / 4,000,000 email/day = 262.144 bytes * day / email
so if, on average, each email Bill receives per day is 262.144 bytes Bill would fill a GMail account in one day.
Not sure GMail is heavy-duty enough for him.
So we spent $1000 and less than 30 minutes a year for a product that has worked flawlessly.
Barracuda still doesn't strike me as the right way. I'm not even sure if it'd be better than our ancient (but serviceable) TrendMicro solution. What is "flawlessly"? Do your users not receive spam? Do innocent bystanders get spammed with bounce messages? Right now, our users don't get viruses via email, but they get a billion virus messages that have been stripped of their payload. That's lame, and there's no good way to turn it off (according to the admins).
Is there a decent way to implement DomainKeys and SPF (and thus also SASL) in front of or on Exchange for 500 users? The most valuable solution would be one that prevents spam being sent to the CEO forged "from" the VPs, which happens.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
RTFA:
They munged it, but they mention Ballamer's in the article: steveb@microsoft.com
Apparently, he gives it out in his public speeches.
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?"
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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.
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Still beats the shit out of: ... ... ... ... ...
"Bush rules world, passes more laws" or
"Bush is evil he must be stopped, VOTE" or
"Gang war escalates, 33 dead so far" or
"Kids are getting fatter" or
"You are all so stupid you will read this anyway" or
There are your american headlines. They will vary a little depending on what section of the shithole you live in.
I'll take the rugby player.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Yeah, in the same manner of speaking that Microsoft Word is open source. Let's face it, raw DNA is not the preferred way to modify the human genome. Neither is a binary executable the preferred way to modify a word-processor.
It's just that reading the source (i.e. the DNA) is something we haven't quite mastered yet.
Ok, that's a possibility too. But I can't really see any plausible reason for nature to make it easy for us to decode DNA. It's meant for execution by cells, not for easy comprehension (or modification) by genetic engineers.
And just like open-source software the human being is constantly being developed upon, albeit so very slowly that we cannot see it for ourselves. But each new baby that's born (the nightlies, hahaha) is a little different than the previous generation. Sometimes this backfires on the whole community *cough*georgewbush*cough* but in general there's improvement.
Actually, there's no good reason to believe human evolution is for the better. Ever since humans discovered farming, we no longer need to be intelligent enough to outwit our prey, or strong enough to kill it, or fast enough to catch it, or having a good enough immune system to eat rotten food, or being able to care for our children in this environment for umpteen years, etc...
In fact, in modern society it's even worse. Due to the fact that the state will take care of you and your children even if you can't do it yourself, the only skill you need to create surviving offspring is to have low enough demands to get laid by someone (no matter how stupid, annoying, ugly, etc), and to be stupid enough not to wear condoms.
Humans have probably "devolved" ever since the neanderthals, and as the society gets "better", the individuals detoriate at an ever increasing rate.
An interesting side-note (just to be politically correct), is that those who advocate racial purity (e.g. nazis), seems to prefer those who have lived in modern society for the longest period of time. They probably should prefer bushmen instead.
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