Has anyone here tried to send an EMAIL to Bill Gates before?
I did.

I got a response as well.
(It follows below, this way quite some time AGO actually, I just RAN ACROSS the email again. Funny things happen when you have thousands of emails)
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Hello



Thank you very much for your kind letter to Mr. Gates. Mr. Gates is honored that you would request a response from him. Unfortunately due to his schedule of commitments in his role as Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, he will not be able to respond to your letter personally.



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Student Information Packet: http://www.microsoft.com/museum/musStudent.mspx



About Microsoft on Microsoft.com (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/),

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Press Pass (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.asp)

Image Gallery: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/gallery.asp

Exec Bios/Speeches: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/default.asp

Bill Gates Web Site: http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp





Best wishes to you for continued success.



Executive Response Team

He actually pays people to check his email

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He actually pays people to check his email

He sure makes enough money, but I doubt he pays someone to check his email.

While I can't say for certain...what I think you received was a generic email autoresponder...like a form letter.