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   Ron, Nov 18th, 2004 @ 6:54am

   
   

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   Anyone considered that the 'special department' maybe is trying to keep its job by saying you are getting 4 million spam emails but you only see 10 a day! :-)

    

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   Geekfather, Nov 18th, 2004 @ 11:24am

   
   

   That may be my fault...

   I use Bill.Gates@microsoft.com for all my online registrations.

    

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   Exadios, Nov 18th, 2004 @ 6:06pm

   
   

   Doubtfull

   I would not think that, on any given day, that there would be anything like 4 million individual spam messages out there. In fact, I suspect, that this figure is about 4000. This means that Bill Gates is, if the millions figure is correct, receiving many hundreds of each individual spam. I doubt that this is the case. More likely what is being called spam are complaints from frustrated Microsoft users.

    

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   Mike (profile), Nov 18th, 2004 @ 7:12pm

   
   

   Re: Doubtfull

   Interesting. I'd bet it's much more than 4,000 though. I get well over 1,000 on some days, and my address isn't nearly as popular as billg's.

    

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   Rashid Khan, Oct 5th, 2006 @ 7:43am

   
   

   I would not wonder on the 4 Million figure, It mig

   The spam’s are mostly automated mails, the spamming companies have huge list of email address which they bank through website registration partners. And Bill.Gates@microsoft.com I guess is in the database of most of them, so I would not wonder on the 4 Million figure, It might be even more by now! But, I doubt if Bill uses this address, its probably a secret or only specific users groups (or servers) are given access to it.

    

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   KLW, Jul 13th, 2007 @ 12:40am

   
   

   Bill Gates on money/fortune

   http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/index.htm
   
   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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