And You Thought You Got Too Much Spam...
from the ain't-seen-nothing dept
If you thought you're receiving too much spam, don't complain to Bill Gates. He apparently receives nearly 4 million emails a day -- most of which are spam. This suggests, at the very least, that the billg email address everyone tosses around is accurate. No wonder his latest obsession is stopping spam. The article isn't entirely clear, but apparently, Gates and Steve Ballmer have a special anti-spam filter, managed by an entirely separate department, to make sure the actual in-box they see isn't overwhelmed with spam. Ballmer claims he gets the second largest amount of spam after Gates, but that only about 10 a day make it into his in-box.
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I would not wonder on the 4 Million figure, It mig
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Bill Gates on money/fortune
And I quote:
"I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level—e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP, and all the other partner companies, and anyone I know. And I always see a write-up from my assistant of any other e-mail, from companies that aren't on my permission list or individuals I don't know. That way I know what people are praising us for, what they are complaining about, and what they are asking."
In summary, as the blurb says, most messages are spam, but that could simply be 51%, the other half could be complaints and other email that wasn't meant as spam.
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