4 million emails for Bill Gates, that’s what Steve Balmer said Gates receives and most of which, of course are spam. It’s no wonder he’s on a crusade to rid the web of it.

But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an entire department to filter unsolicited e-mails and only a few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said here Thursday.

Wonder what kind of people work in the Bill Gates email department? They must really grow tired of reading spam … talk about going virtually postal. I bet these people don’t even have email addresses themselves! Who would want to look at their own spam after spending all day looking at Gates spam?

As of this writing there’s 440 days left, Mr. Gates, to figure out what to do with this whole spam mess. The countdown is on the leftside of this blog at the very bottom in the Hmm stats section. I remain pessimistically optimistic.