{"id":645,"date":"2004-11-18T23:35:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T03:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=645"},"modified":"2009-01-05T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T01:32:55","slug":"bills-spam-is-4-million-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Bill&#8217;s spam is 4 million a day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,1354846,00.html\" title=\"Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day\">Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day<\/a> (David Teather, Friday Nov. 19, 2004). I&#8217;m glad someone gets more spam than I do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next time you&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;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 &#8211; even if you had staff there was no way to get around answering your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that Bill Gates gets 4 million emails a day (David Teather, Friday Nov. 19, 2004). I&#8217;m glad someone gets more spam than I do. The next time you&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill&#8217;s spam is 4 million a day!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}