Gates world’s most spammed person: Receives 4 million emails per day, most of it spam
Am I the only one who’s enjoying the oddly humorous aspect of this? I didn’t think so….
Pardon me if I’m enjoying this just a wee bit too much….
Forget trying to flood Bill Gates’ e-mail inbox with junk.
The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives 4 million e-mails a day, but practically an entire department at the company he founded is dedicated to ensuring that nothing unwanted gets into his inbox, the company’s chief executive said Thursday.
“There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world,” Steve Ballmer said.
“Bill Gates (is first) because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam.”
Spam or junk e-mails are unsolicited messages, generally advertising goods or services and usually sent to many e-mail accounts simultaneously, often indiscriminately.
Ballmer said Microsoft has special technology that just filters spam intended for Gates.
“Literally there’s a whole department almost that takes care of it,” he said.
A whole department? The next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that Gates has an entire department devoted solely to wiping his…ah, no, I think I’ll be staying away from that one….
Hmm…maybe when Gates’ storm troopers are done despamming his mail box, they could come take a shot at mine??
