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.

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Detroit Free Press, Ballmer talks up links to the Net, December 2, 2004. (Updated link clarifies quantity.)

Older sources

The 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

Washington Post, A Spam-Free Future

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