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You've Got Mail, Mr. Gates

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Splunge, Nov 20, 2004.

  1. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Splunge, Nov 20, 2004
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    All from bloodthirsty MAC users I'm sure.
     
    Rednik, Nov 21, 2004
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    Hmmmmm
    I've always wondered what my brother was up to in his spare time.......
     
    Zurga, Nov 21, 2004
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    Wait till he gets the one I just sent him. I gave him a link of the hippo in a thong...
     
    Jaguar, Nov 21, 2004
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    I'm sure he will thank you personally for adding one more mail to the party of 3,999,999 posts. :spin:
     
    Wordplay, Nov 21, 2004
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  6. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    Oh no...not that stupid dancing hippo again! :doh:

    He deserves all of it if he's dumb enough to give out his email address in mass mailings! :jawdrop: :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Nov 22, 2004
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    I find it hard to believe they don't have another mail id, for the more important or urgent business correspondence.
     
    Faraaz, Nov 22, 2004
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    Let's see, if he reads one mail per five seconds in average, this must be the calculation:

    5*6= 30 mails per minute

    30*60= 1800 mails per hour

    1800*24= 43200 mails per day.

    That means that he can read one hundreth of all the mails, so let's hope that he got a lot of time on his hands, he'll need it.
     
    Register, Nov 22, 2004
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    Of course he does, it even says so in the article.
     
    JSBB, Nov 22, 2004
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  10. reepnorp

    reepnorp Lim'n Lime Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Dear God! That comes out to 46.3 emails per second!
     
    reepnorp, Nov 23, 2004
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    He probably has people payed to read through the emails and notify him if its important
     
    iLLusioN', Dec 2, 2004
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    What does he need bloodthirsty MAC users for, if there are enough annoyed Windows users?

    :D
     
    Jazhara7, Dec 2, 2004
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    Ummm... Developed by Microsoft? If it's based on Outlook "technology" (or IIS for that matter) I wonder how much business correspondence it deletes :)
     
    toughluck, Dec 8, 2004
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    Saber A revolution without dancing is not worth having! Veteran

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    Uh, caleb, if he read one mail every five seconds, he'd read twelve a minute, not 30. If he read thirty a minute, he'd be reading one per two seconds.

    Therefore:

    1 Mail per 5 Seconds

    60 seconds per minute/5 seconds per mail
    =12 mails per minute

    12 x 60= 720 mails per hour

    720 x 24= 17280 per day

    Not including sleeping, eating, pissing, or anything that he needs to do.
     
    Saber, Dec 13, 2004
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    i don't think he does any of that....
     
    Balle, Dec 13, 2004
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    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    No, he set up departments to do that for him too, lol reminds me of what King Robert Baratheon said to Lord Eddard Stark in the Song of Ice and Fire.

    There is only one solution, that is a Bayesian spam filter, and it's written in LISP, either that or change email address.
     
    Morgoth, Dec 13, 2004
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  17. Saber

    Saber A revolution without dancing is not worth having! Veteran

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    Or he could get the mafia to knock everyone who sends him mail off.
     
    Saber, Dec 13, 2004
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    Gives a whole new meaning to the term "spam killer," doesn't it?
     
    toughluck, Dec 13, 2004
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    If he kills everyone who sends him an e-mail he'll probably end up wiping out the entire world. More or less. I think I'll send him an e-mail that sounds like this.
    Are you having fun with all these e-mails. You had to give your e-mail adress, you dumb or something?
    Or I might send something else, I'll think about it.
     
    Lord Garak, Dec 14, 2004
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    Whats the bet that the given e-mail adress is just a front and all the contents of it are deleated every 1/8392 of a second and the only reason it is there is to stop most of the general public and 14m312 H4x0rs from bothering to find the real one.
     
    Stu, Jan 9, 2005
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