Bill Gates receives 4 million spam messages in his email every day

The Microsoft chairman is the world's most spammed person: about 4 million messages arrive in his mailbox on daily basis.

The king of Microsoft his Excellency &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/03/19/27059.html' target=_blank>Williams Gates and his silent voodoo doll Steve Ballmer are claiming to be the world's most spammed men. Steve Ballmer made the startling claim at the start of a two-day Microsoft-sponsored Asia Leadership Forum in Singapore.

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He said Bill gets about four million emails a day, most of them spam. Ballmer was characteristically quiet about how much &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/352/13195_spam.html' target=_blank>spam he gets but said it was his own fault because he tends to shout out his email address [stevebГѓВ microsoft.com] in all public speeches, reports The Inquirer.

According to Xinhua, Bill Gates receives 4 million e-mails a day, but practically an entire department at the company he founded is dedicated to ensuring that nothing unwanted gets into his inbox, the company's chief executive said Thursday.

&to=http://english.pravda.ru/comp/2000/10/27/522.html' target=_blank>Microsoft has special technology that just filters spam intended for Gates. Spam or junk e-mails, regarded as perhaps the biggest threat to the internet, are unsolicited messages sent to many e-mail accounts simultaneously, often indiscriminately.

Spam is regarded as perhaps the biggest threat to the &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/88/351/14442_Internet.html' target=_blank>internet, with some experts putting it as high as 80% of the world's online traffic.

The company is working on a number of solutions, including software that replies automatically to email messages from users not known to that computer, and the idea of "postage" on emails. Microsoft is also working with internet firms AOL, Yahoo and EarthLink to verify the identity of the sender of an email message.

A North Carolina man who raked in $24m (Ј13m) from peddling junk products and pornography under a false name this month became the first felony conviction under under a United States anti-spam law, and faces up to nine years in prison, informs Guardian.

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