The Guardian reports that Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day (David Teather, Friday Nov. 19, 2004). I’m glad someone gets more spam than I do.
The next time you’re sifting through the mortgage offers, cheap Rolex watches or dubious business proposals from Nigeria, spare a thought for Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder is the most spammed man in the world, with 4m emails arriving in his inbox each day.
Brian Cantwell-Smith was discussing the development of e-mail and made an interesting claim that some of its flaws can be traced to the way e-mail in the 70s was designed for people like the engineers who were developing it. As a result it doesn’t work well for someone who needs to have a secretary filter e-mail as the engineers were not managers and did their correspondence themselves. One could respond that it was exactly such a design that made the net feel democratic – even if you had staff there was no way to get around answering your own.
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