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I am the Most Spammed Person in the World
jefp writes "In November 2004, Microsoft's second-in-command Steve Ballmer made some headlines by mentioning that Chairman Bill Gates was getting four million spams per day. At the time, I was dealing with a little spam problem of my own - I was getting around a million spams per day. I found it a little comforting that my problem wasn't quite as bad as Bill's. However, a couple of weeks later Ballmer corrected himself, saying he mis-remembered the stat and Gates actually gets four million per year.
This means I was getting one hundred times as much spam as Bill Gates.
I've written a tutorial explaining why I get so much crapmail and how I deal with it."
he just went from 1 million a day to about 1.3 million a day.
I can't even stand a single can, how do you get on with that much?
for Spamalot
you don't post your email address to farmgirls.com!
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll wipe out the species.
Stop subscribing at all those porn sites!
Je t'aime Stéphanie
...but not with one slashdotting.
He's really just using Slashdot to break his server farm so he won't have to get spam anymore.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
Keep my web service running too, since it's on the same machine.
/. front page?
You try to do this by submiting a story to
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Stop signing up for all those free porn sites!
paintball
I dont get nearly as much spam as that, but even a few hundred a day is pretty irritating. My solution is to delete all email as soon as I get it.
I figure if its important I'll get a phone call.
air and light and time and space
I wonder if Bill changes email addresses as much as I install security patches. Karma's a bitch.
They are ACME Labs! They have everything I ever need. I order my gear to get that nasty Road Runner from them all the time! Its great stuff!
Does Ballmer "mis-remember" his others stats too; he's been showering us with them lately.
This does not reflect well on thttpd. Not that I'm saying it is a poorly designed web server (indeed, I know it is not!), but it did not last long during this Slashdot barrage. I hope this doesn't become an incident people will refer to when attempting to denegrate thttpd.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
but now he's the most slashdotted person in the world
:D
Hmmm...
* "World's biggest hacker"
* "World's Fastest Inkjet Printer"
And what we have here? The "most spammed person in the world" becomes "the most slashdotted person in the world" who used "the most over-used headline cliché in the world".
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!
That is impressive, but I imagine that any catch-all email addresses at foo.com or test.com might beat even that.
concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
For my fake email I have used john@holmes.com. I just thought it was funny to use. Then I realized there was a holmes.com. I would surely hate to some guy named john if I work there. I can imagine his email box is going nuts from 10 years worth of stuff.
Yeah, but the folks at asdf.com had it even worse.
I think the line
kinda gave that away already.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
so I sent him an email asking for the text
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Someone deletes all your thoughts as soon as you get them?
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
>He wasn't getting a million fucking spam a day.
I want to see the MTA that can even handle this. His MTA can move a million messages just in spam, but his web server can't stand up to a mild slashdotting?
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
The guy that gets 1000000 items of spam per day is slashdotted?
Beware geeks bearing .GIFs
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
Maybe someone should create a blacklist blacklist?
cpeterso