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Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:39:45 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: August 15, 2004 9:23:07 PM PDT Subject: Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby. Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby. By KATIE HAFNER August 5, 2004 LIKE many people these days, Jason Kim and Linda Crasco rely heavily on e-mail for their work, running a small educational research and evaluation company in Norwood, Mass. And like many people, they get plenty of spam, some 400 pieces of unwanted e-mail daily. So when their company, Systemic Research, first installed a spam filter 18 months ago, they were impressed by the noticeable reduction in the amount of spam they received. Several months ago, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco were at a meeting when they ran into a program director they knew from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She greeted them coolly. Puzzled, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco asked what they might have done to offend her. As it turned out, she had sent Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco an e-mail message suggesting that they work together on a grant application. The application deadline had since passed, and the acquaintance was more than a little miffed that she had gotten no response from them. The two entrepreneurs were flabbergasted. Not only did they have no idea the e-mail had been sent, they had no idea that it had been snuffed out as junk. .... <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/technology/circuits/05filt.html> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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