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Bill Gates is most "spammed" person in the world: Microsoft CEO
Thu Nov 18, 3:41 AM ET Offbeat - AFP
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Internet junkies, take heart: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) receives four million e-mails daily, most of them spam, and is probably the most "spammed" person in the world.
But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said here Thursday.
Ballmer was speaking to government information technology and development officials from the Asia-Pacific at the start of a two-day Microsoft-sponsored Asia Leadership Forum in Singapore.
"There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world," Ballmer said, referring to Gates and himself.
"Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam.
"And so we have special technology which just filters (spam). Literally there's a whole department almost that takes care of it."
Ballmer said he was "probably also amongst the most spammed people in the world" because he gave out his e-mail address -- steveb@microsoft.com -- in all his public speeches.
"I receive many pieces of spam (but) only about 10 of them actually make it into my inbox because of the spam technologies that our IT department implements."
Thu Nov 18, 3:41 AM ET Offbeat - AFP
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Internet junkies, take heart: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) receives four million e-mails daily, most of them spam, and is probably the most "spammed" person in the world.
But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said here Thursday.
Ballmer was speaking to government information technology and development officials from the Asia-Pacific at the start of a two-day Microsoft-sponsored Asia Leadership Forum in Singapore.
"There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world," Ballmer said, referring to Gates and himself.
"Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates. Bill literally receives four million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam.
"And so we have special technology which just filters (spam). Literally there's a whole department almost that takes care of it."
Ballmer said he was "probably also amongst the most spammed people in the world" because he gave out his e-mail address -- steveb@microsoft.com -- in all his public speeches.
"I receive many pieces of spam (but) only about 10 of them actually make it into my inbox because of the spam technologies that our IT department implements."
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