World's most-spammed man
November 18, USA - William Henry Gates III or just Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, receives up to four million emails a year, and most of it is "junk" or "spam," according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. An entire department filters the unsolicited emails.
Sources
edit- Detroit Free Press, Ballmer talks up links to the Net, December 2, 2004. (Updated link clarifies quantity.)
Older sources
editThe following sources were published prior to the clarification about the quantity of e-mail provided by Steve Ballmer, of Microsoft Corporation:
- ABC News, Gates: Even Microsoft Master Is Plagued By 'Spam'
- BBC News, Bill Gates 'most spammed person'
- CBS News, Spammers Love Bill Gates
- China Daily, Bill Gates 'most spammed person'
- CNN, Gates world's most spammed person
- Forbes, Gates: Even Microsoft Master Is Plagued By 'Spam'
- India Economic Times, Gates world's most spammed person
- MSNBC, Bill Gates gets millions of spam daily
- Reuters, "Gates may be world's most spammed person"
- Slashdot, "Gates: World's Most-Spammed Man"
Related sources
edit- Washington Post, A Spam-Free Future