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Friday, November 19, 2004

Posted 8:30 AM by Anurag

Spam

Here comes the news that at 4 millions junk mails a day, Bill Gates (billg AT microsoft.com, billgates AT microsoft.com) is the most spammed person on this planet. (Btw, I also have email ID on gmail: billgates.microsoft AT gmail.com). Bill has a full department filtering his Inbox!

Some smart-ass comments from /. I really like the one about confusing hate mail with spam :))
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# Maybe they think Bill needs viagra or he wants to help some nigerian millionare to transfer some funds?
# "In his case, I suspect the filters are human." Or possibly Morlocks.
Nah... they're obviously Mentats. They have a whole office chanting, "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion."
# He should get a GMail account and scrap the department.
# 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.
# I'm comforted to know that when I use billgates@microsoft.com when signing up for something stupid, or for those sites that require an email for download, he actually gets those emails.
# anyone know Ballmer's?
developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers@microsoft .com
# I wonder if he gets spam about discounted copies of XP?
# For *once* I have to thank spammers for a job well done.
# They must have hate mail confused with spam.
# 640 emails.... ....ought to be about enough for anyone. ;-)
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And I thought I was heavily spammed at some 250 spam mails everyday. When will I recieve 4 million spams a day! Won't you love to be in that position? :)

1 comments

Comments:

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I'm comforted to know that when I use billgates@microsoft.com when signing up for something stupid, or for those sites that require an email for download, he actually gets those emails.

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Whoever said that should also be comforted to know that thats what keeps the people in the department in employment.

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Sanj : January 13, 2005 10:11 PM