Gates loaded ... with spam

Seattle PI | at | by Mike

If you don't think anybody else could possibly get any more spam than you, think of Bill Gates. The Microsoft chairman receives about 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it junk, says Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive. "There are two people who probably are the No. 1 spam recipients in the world," Ballmer said yesterday. "Bill Gates (is first) because he is Bill Gates."

Thanks to technology developed by Microsoft, Ballmer said, only about 10 junk e-mails make it through to his inbox each day. Ballmer, in Singapore for the company's Government Leaders Forum, made the comment in response to an audience question about the possibility of Microsoft collaborating with governments to stop spam.