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 ;)

Why not release it?

[FortKnox]

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??

I think I see the problem

[MoxCamel]

At least now I know why he never replies to my requests for an interview ;)

Here's a tip:

When asking for an interview, do not also offer to enlarge his penis. Mox

none

[Anonymous Coward]

almost first... [e-mail]

Email Required

[kb0pin]

I'm comforted to know that when I use [e-mail] when signing up for something stupid, or for those sites that require an email for download, he actually gets those emails.

Only 4 million per day?

[lukateake]

Hmmm, I would have thought more considering all the unpatched Windows boxes out there.

Re:I think I see the problem

[rusty0101]

That's right. Forward all of those offers to Melinda.

XP OEM CH33p!\@

[RyanP]

I wonder if he gets spam about discounted copies of XP?

Re:Why not release it?

[RazzleFrog]

Probably because it is based on something open-source like SpamAssassin.

Well..

[Savant-Ben]

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 [e-mail]..

Thank you spammers

[digitalgimpus]

For *once* I have to thank spammers for a job well done.

Now any chance on taking on SCO?

Exchange

[peterprior]

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..

Hotmail

[The_Rippa]

Well, ever since hotmail upped it's space to 250mb I've been getting the same amount too.

Huh...

[z1d0v]

Aren't these just angry clients? :P

slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot - yesterdays fark.com articles, today!

Ballmer

[Anonymous Coward]

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?")

most spammed man

[Washizu]

What does he expect when he keeps sending out those email tracking programs?

Test suite...

[gmuslera]

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".

over used joke warning....

[hardaker]

Well, of course with a name like microsoft you're bound to get email for viagra like products... (excuse me... I should have said V1aGR___a)

Re:Exchange

[Tassach]

Ha. He probably secretly uses Postfix on FreeBSD :-)

Re:XP OEM CH33p!\@

[Haydn Fenton]

Yeah, he also has the biggest penis and supply of V1@GR4 in the world

Re:Umm..

[emc]

I thought [e-mail] was just an alias to [e-mail] :)

Anyone else having a problem imagining Little Bush actually using a computer?

Hate Mail

[datadriven]

They must have hate mail confused with spam.

Re:I think I see the problem

[peterprior]

Tip? Penis? Reminds me of the good old leper joke.

What did the leper say to the prostitute?
You can keep the tip..

News for Nerds indeed.

[lottameez]

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.

Spam across the ocean

[AstroSurf]

Bill Gates receives up to four million emails a day

Wow! How much money has he sent to Nigeria so far?

Re:Email Required

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent lies.

That fucker still hasn't coughed up the $2 per mail I forwarded for Microsoft's tracking experiment a few years ago.

Re:Why not release it?

[frugle]

Of over 30 billion e-mails being sent daily, some experts estimate that over 40% is Spam.

Google informs me that 40% of 30 billion = 12 000 000 000

and (4 000 000 / 12 000 000 000) * 100 = 0.0333333333

That gives Bill Gates a measly 0.03% Market share of Spam. I think we should help Microsoft grow by forwarding all our unwanted spam to Bill.

Your Job Sucks When

[nuintari]

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.

640 emails....

[underworld]

....ought to be about enough for anyone. ;-)

Re:Why not release it?

[Pad-Lok]

Maybe they think Bill needs viagra or he wants to help some nigerian millionare to transfer some funds?

In related news

[Jrod5000 at RPI]

In related news, Mr. Gates was reportedly heard to have exclaimed, "Four million emails ought to be enough for anybody!"
Although this quote has not yet been confirmed, the next generation Microsoft operating system, code-named Longhorn, is expected to require a boot disk to access any email after 4,096,000.
Stay tuned for more breaking news.

Gates: use Mozilla Thunderbird's Junk Mail feature

[otisg]

Somebody should tell him to install Thunderbird.

Re:Why not release it?

[Singletoned]

"Google informs me that 40% of 30 billion = 12 000 000 000"

You had to use Google to work out 40% of 30 billion? I don't think you belong here.

Re:Why not release it?

[Singletoned]

He should get a GMail account and scrap the department.

Good.

[turgid]

I hope his pee cee gets lots of viruses too. :-)

Re:I think I see the problem

[david.given]

Reminds me of the good old leper joke.

This is obviously some strange new meaning of the word 'good' that I wasn't previously aware of...

Condolences Card

[mysticgoat]

This is so sad.

I thought I'd send Mr William Gates a brief cheer-up note:

Dear Bill,
I just heard that you are the most spammed person in the world and I thought I'd send you a cheering-up note. Since that must really suck.

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?

Re:Unfiltered

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to work for Oracle. I once sent Larry a rather critical email. I didn;t get sacked or a reply, either, so I don't know if he got it.

Oracle internal email system used to be so crap that it got confused if people had the same first name and sent them each others email. I shared the same first name with the VP of Consulting for EMEA (I was working in Hamburg at the time). I once received an email from Big Man's secretary to him asking if he wanted to confirm his meeting with some IBM execs. I replied to her saying that she should tell IBM to Bugger Off and to get on the phone to the head of consulting in Hamburg and to give that Phil guy a large pay rise.

A couple of days later my boss called me into his office and told me "Please don't do that again"

Re:Your Job Sucks When

[cmstremi]

Still a better job than "Jizz Mopper"... Barely.

Re:Why not release it?

[blowdart]

Living and breathing? That's not very Assassin like. Can't MS implement anything right?

Re:Why not release it?

[poot_rootbeer]

In his case, I suspect the filters are human.

Or possibly Morlocks.

Re:Why not release it?

[Mark-Allen]

Oh, believe me. He really belongs here. This is the norm.

Sure, make me feel bad for him...

[pla]

Aww man... Now I almost feel bad for setting the "anonymous FTP password" on every browser I touch to "[e-mail]".

Probably not his real email address, but still, he apparently doesn't need any more help.

Bill Gs outlook rule

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

if subject = {penis/breast/viagra/vioxx/discount } forward to linus (at) transmeta.com

Re:Email Required

[drinkypoo]

anyone know Ballmer's?

developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers@microsoft .com

Re:Why not release it?

[Elminst]

Nah... they're obviously Mentats.
They have a whole office chanting, "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion."

Or ... This is NOT a joke!

[gosand]

I wonder if he gets spam about discounted copies of XP?

I wonder if he gets any of those "Bill Gates will send you money" chain letters.

The exchange server

[outriding9800]

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.

Someone send him a Gmail invite!

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone send him a Gmail invite!

Re:I think I see the problem

[IdleTime]

Here's a tip:

When asking for an interview, do not also offer to enlarge his penis.

Why not? That normally works all the time for female journalists interviewing males. Been that way for years...

Bill's Response.

[DarkHelmet]

/dev/null? What is this /dev/null/ you're talking about?

Signed,
Bill Gates

Re:XP OEM CH33p!\@

[Hugonz]

Maybe he should go for one of those "College Degrees", being a college dropout...

Re:I think I see the problem

[Cougem]

Reminds me of the good old leper joke.

No no no, that's the mediocre leper joke. The funny leper joke is:

What's green and melts in the mouth?
A leper's penis.

Re:Email Required

[mattbelcher]

Back when I was still in school, a MS recruiter came and gave a talk to our ACM. His name was also Bill Gates. His email address was [e-mail], which caused all sorts of confusion. Apparently, he would get invitations to dinners and speaking engagements.

Re:Your sig (OT)

[UserGoogol]

Verbing weirds language.

Re:Enlarge your penis with Gillette Venus

[nadadogg]

Good plan, but whatever you do, do NOT use Nair. It began as a semi-pleasant tingle, then it felt like the fires of hell combined with the ice of the south pole, all fighting for delivering the maximum amount of pain to my scrotum.

Re:Geeky?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah, I'm from a democratic country.

Re:640 emails....

[Pugflop]

No no no, 640k! So 640 * 1024 = 655360 That's more like it :).

Re:Well..

[PetoskeyGuy]

You shouldn't put his email address online! Spammers have bots that can harvest links like [e-mail] [mailto]. so make sure you never do that.

Re:Why not release it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's face it, raw DNA is not the preferred way to modify the human genome.

No, there's an API which I certainly prefer :-)