Spike Jones wrote:
>
> i am told that all email should be treated as a postcard, and
> i have for the most part, but i once calculated what would
> be involved in monitoring or even sampling the email of worker bees
> in a huge company like lockheed martin. it would be a herculean
> task, even for the sunnyvale commercial space division alone,
> not to mention a mind-numbing waste of time. i convinced
> myself the resources would never be allocated. spike
Keywords. Sentence structures. Statistical correlation. You'd be surprised
at what technology can do.
In your case, the phrase "offer" and "price" might have been the trigger.
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