Gates 'World's Most-Spammed Man' 424
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 ;)
Re:Why not release it? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Why not release it? (Score:5, Insightful)
In his case, I suspect the filters are human.
Re:Why not release it? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Why not release it? (Score:2, Insightful)
"And so we have special technology which just filters (spam). Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that takes care of it."
I don't see Balmer calling people "special technology."
Re:My earlier (rejected) story submission... (Score:4, Insightful)
In other words, "We pay two kids $5/hr to sit in the basement and sift through this crap."
Or more likely, "We've got a couple network admins that implemented SpamAssassin for us."
It's not a question of spam (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Why not release it? (Score:3, Insightful)
It would be interesting to know what this automation is -- ah the irony if some OSS project was being utilized (SpamAssassin, DSPAM, etc.)
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Fascinating! (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Another incomplete article (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Why not release it? (Score:5, Insightful)
By the way, note that the top three stories in the Australian news are "Wallaby escapes police action", "Bat swoops to bite woman" and "Passengers save bus from plunge". Gotta love Australia!
Spam filter (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Exchange (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It's not a question of spam (Score:4, Insightful)
He'll have any number of different e-mail addresses for different purposes, inluding ones that only friends and family know - I'm sure he's not shut off from a part of the internet just because every idiot puts billg@microsoft.com in forms when they don't want to give their own address.
Re:Umm.. (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:It's not a question of spam (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, since the inception of the internet, there has been this wonderful concept called a 'handle' or 'alias' that works pretty well.. I would not be surprised at all if he surfs the web and uses regular email on a daily basis. Who knows, he probably surfs chat rooms under the assumed identity of a 13 year old girl with braces for all we know. ;>
Re:I think I see the problem (Score:3, Insightful)
Umm.. Yes?
Too many sites whack those w3c valid stamps on their homepages without checking they are valid from time to time.
Knowing there is one less of those means I can sleep tonight and might even be allowed another airhole in my box
Oh damn. Today is Thursday. Maybe not then.
Or most likely, (Score:1, Insightful)
Your sig (OT) (Score:1, Insightful)
Examples : "an excellent opportunity to use some of that power". Conversely : "this tire iron gives me great leverage".
In those cases where you think "use" is too feeble, try "harness", "employ", "embrace" et al
People who use "leverage" when they mean "use" just sound like those sales droids who only speak in buzz-words.
Re:My earlier (rejected) story submission... (Score:3, Insightful)
How the hell is the fact that Bill Gates gets a lot of email a "breaking" news story. Is this even news? Who gives a shit. Tell bill to keep a white list and dump the rest to
Re:Why not release it? (Score:2, Insightful)