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From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/technology/circuits/05filt.html>
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