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From: fertig-scott@CS.YALE.EDU (Scott Fertig)
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Subject: Re: AI and Email
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Date: 2 Jun 91 09:32:19 GMT
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Do you know anything about this?  Do you have the May issue of Byte?

-s

> In article <201@dean1.usma.edu> aimgr@dean1.usma.edu (AI BBS Manager) writes:
>>PROBLEM STATEMENT:  Some of the senior executives complain
>>that they receive a lot of information through EMAIL that
>>they really don't need or they do not have time to read on a
>>regular basis.  A quick-fix is to let a secretary screen the
>>mail or just dump the mailbox when it gets full.  How do we
>>solve this problem?
>>CONSTRAINTS:
>>1.  Utilize on an existing PR1ME LAN system.
>>2.  Make it easy enough so that a computer novice can use it.
>>COMMENTS:  I am looking for general ideas and methodologies
>>on how to attack this problem.  A clipping service using
>>keyword searches and/or neural net pattern-matching is an
>>example.  If you can sugggest tools that will help given the
>>constraints, that would also be beneficial.

> The MIT Information Lense right up you alley.

> The current issue of Byte Magazine (May, may not remain on newsstands
> now that it's almost June) has an article about it.  There's a few
> companies commercializing on it, interestingly by removing some of
> the functionality.

> Bill Biesty
> (biesty@ide.com)
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