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routing
      information in the email header: who it came from, who it is going to.
      The phone analogy is recipient and originating phone numbers.
      This cuts down on "noise". "Secret Power" gave examples of this too.

    o Search all traffic for a set of keywords that are found (tuned) over
      time to have the best results. SOME of the ones I used:

            first day
            last day
            resign
            new job
            resume
            interview
            drug test

It's ironic that drug testing of employees is so wide-spread that it can
be used to pick out people looking for new jobs.

    o Further exclusion logic (keywords) to isolate the meaning of the
      keyword 'resume' to mean job history. Also, UK people say 'CV'.
      Example: do NOT allow a sentence fragment like 'resume playing'
      to trigger "resume condition" inclusion.

That's how it is done.

I then sit at a terminal and page through a
summary of the results, looking for 'hits'.

That's how DICTIONARY works too.

*   The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
*   P496-497: You would put in a whole slew of keywords.
*             You flip through the results.

And it's damn effective.

I could pick needles out of a haystack. I could find a 16-line Risk Management
report in Salomon's daily 150-230 megabytes of Internet email traffic. It took
only one word: 'risk', and lots of exclusion logic, because the word is used
lots. I had never seen that format of risk report before. It was incoming too.

It sure didn't look like much, but...

The head of Risk Management at Salomon Brothers (real name) replied:

*   From bookstaber@sbi Wed Jun 19 03:27:55 1996
*   Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 03:27:40 EDT
*   To: guy@doppelg