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Thread ID: 51385 2004-11-19 08:54:00 Spam Bill Gates ?? TonyF (246) Press F1
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293939 2004-11-19 08:54:00 This may please some of you - from a news article ....

" Bill Gates, the chairman and founder of Microsoft, receives millions of e-mail messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive.

"Bill literally receives 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam," Ballmer said Thursday.

Spam or junk e-mails are unsolicited messages, generally advertising goods or services and usually sent to many e-mail accounts simultaneously.

Ballmer said Microsoft has special technology that just filters spam intended for Gates. In addition, several Microsoft employees are dedicated to ensuring that nothing unwanted gets into his inbox."

Any of you part of this load ??
Cheers T
TonyF (246)
293940 2004-11-19 08:58:00 At a guess many of us would be responsible for part (albeit a very small part) of this load.

A lot of people use addresses such as billgates@microsoft.com as a "fake" email address on web forms. Of course these sites where we don't want to give out our own email address on-sell the fake address to spam companies, who then proceed to spam that address. As such Bill is unfortunately for him receiving all our spam.

Ah well, better him than me ;)

Mike.
Mike (15)
293941 2004-11-19 08:58:00 and i'll bet you believe everything you read as welll... :-) fairway (5932)
293942 2004-11-19 09:29:00 Meaning what , Fairway ?? TonyF (246)
293943 2004-11-19 11:19:00 Hmm Spam is unsolicited commercial junk, and Bill gets 4 Megaspam per diem . Most unpleasant for him . If I buy a pre-built "Brand Name" computer (perish the thought), I get unsolicited commercial junk thrown in whether I want it or not . How many of those does Bill send out each day?
Maybe what goes 'round . . .
R2
R2x1 (4628)
293944 2004-11-19 12:45:00 I wouldn't mind. Anyone know his e-mail addy :D george12 (7)
293945 2004-11-19 12:49:00 he has flunkies, and his personall is a number.

D.
drb1 (4492)
293946 2004-11-20 06:49:00 i heard on the edge yesterday that mr gates get about 40 000 emails of spam......... Prescott (11)
293947 2004-11-20 06:56:00 > i heard on the edge yesterday that mr gates get about
> 40 000 emails of spam.........

The Edge must have not been able to figure out what all the zeros mean ;) :p

tvnz.co.nz gets more spam than you![/url]

Mike.
Mike (15)
293948 2004-11-20 08:05:00 i wonder what his email is, bill@microsofit.com or @hotmail.com???? :p Prescott (11)
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