The world's most spammed person?
Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) is
reported to have recently noted that Bill Gates receives about four million
e-mail messages a day, most of them spam. Apparently even to Ballmer this figure
seems beyond belief, and in a
later interview he changed the number to four million a year. But that's hardly
the point. The point might be (in this particular column, at least) that perhaps
Bill Gates shouldn't leave his computer on all the time, but should only use it
when he absolutely must. Of course, as one
commentator notes, it's hard to believe that Gates would use the classic billg@microsoft.com
for receiving or sending mail of any significance. He doesn't really need mail
filters to filter out what doesn't have to get to his inbox. He has secretaries
who do just this for him. Come to think of it, if he wants to see some regular,
down-to-earth, what-the-other-people-get spam, he should get himself a regular
(though aliased) e-mail address so that he can actually receive some enjoyable
spam.
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