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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?
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..
What does he expect when he keeps sending out those email tracking programs?
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
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".
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.
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
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. ;-)
Somebody should tell him to install Thunderbird.
Simpy
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
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.
You shouldn't put his email address online! Spammers have bots that can harvest links like billg@microsoft.com. so make sure you never do that.