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Smart, Semantic, Email

Jan 29, 2009 1:28AM PST

There's a Stanford University story all over the wire today about so-called smart email that "figures out who messages are intended for and finds them whether or not senders know the addresses." This raises a couple of red flags for me--primarily privacy and spam. What do you think?

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