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Old August 14th 07, 06:37 AM posted to sci.crypt,sci.astro
Hassan Hamad
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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@doppelganger
* Subject: Risk Mgmt Report?
* From: bookstaber@sbi (Richard Bookstaber)
*
* This is proprietary risk/position information.
* Please let me know the circumstances -- who was sending it to whom.
*
* Is it intrafirm, or was it going to someone outside of the firm?
*
* I am in London now, but will check my e-mail.


So, that's spotting one email due to one
word out of say 200,000,000 characters.

Set it up, push a button, check search results.

I picked up so many people in 'resume condition' at Salomon, they ende


 




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