Ah, the leverage we have ...

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

From: Mary_Shaw@cs.cmu.edu
To: farber@CENTRAL.cis.UPENN.EDU
Subject: Ah, the leverage we have ...
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 18:47:01 EST


Enclosed is from a change-of-address message received this afternoon:


> I apologize if you get multiple copies of this message. I have sent it to all
> unique email addresses found in my email archives for the last two years and
> eight months. This was about 40 megabytes of text with a total of 6,500
> addresses found in To fields, 3,300 in From fields, and 1,500 in Cc fields. Of
> course, there was considerable overlap and I was also able to eliminate some
> addresses manually, so this message is being sent to 5,396 addresses.
> Unfortunately, there are most likely cases where the same person is on
> the list multiple times under slight address variations. I could find no
> simple way of pruning the list any further (eliminating duplicate userid's
> disregarding the hostname would not work - e.g., there are five different
> johnson@something on the list, representing four different individuals).




Only 40 meg in 2 years?