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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
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..
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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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
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".
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?
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.
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.
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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.
Somebody should tell him to install Thunderbird.
Simpy
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...
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
But cussing out or threatening the life of Bill Gates, though, is wiser than cussing out/threatening the life of a guy who endorsed the Patriot Act and doesn't believe in privacy or that POWs have a right to an attorney, instead inventing some made-up term "enemy combatant" to get around the Geneva Convention.
Bush just signed off on that. You think he came up with that himself? No, the architect of 'enemy combatant' is Alberto Gonzales, who has been nominated as our next Attorney General.
I wonder if he gets any of those "Bill Gates will send you money" chain letters.
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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.
Signed,
Bill Gates
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Verbing weirds language.
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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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I wonder if they are archiving it all someplace.
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