Yahoo! News - Microsoft's Gates Is World's Most 'Spammed' Person

"[Bill] Gates, Microsoft's chairman, gets 4 million e-mails a day and is probably the most 'spammed' person in the world, his Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

However, only a few junk e-mails gets [sic] through to Gates's inbox thanks to anti-spam technology that filters his messages, Ballmer said at a Microsoft event in Singapore."

You heard the man. From now on, whenever prompted to enter an e-mail address to register before accessing allegedly free content online, go right ahead and punch billg@microsoft.com in there and feel good about doing so.

Making more spam for the richest computer magnate on Earth means that some harried programmer in Redmond gets more work trying to identify and remove it. In the end, it means stronger and better spam filters for everyone. (If you're paying someone to write state-of-the-art mail filters for you, and if your company sells mail software, why wouldn't you offer it to your customers?)

I for one salute our diligent spam filter writing friends from Seattle.

Write to billg@microsoft.com
Contact billg@microsoft.com
Send mail to billg@microsoft.com
Write billg@microsoft.com
E-mail: billg@microsoft.com
billg@microsoft.com

Just doing my part to make the world a better place.