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I am the Most Spammed Person in the World

Posted by timothy on from the heart-goes-out-to-you dept.

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."

2 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Should change his e-mail id by anandpur · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to something like ths hjuhiouh@microsoft.com
    It will not make his inbox spam free, but spam will be below 0.001% compared to what he receice now. Think of drop in Internet traffic.

  2. Dealing with by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Dealing with spam is one thing.

    Dealing with the Slashdot Effect[tm] is something else entirely.

    Having your story told on Slashdot: PRICELESS!

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."