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E‐Mails to many of them Then Snarf them

If you get hundreds of email messages every day, you have probably been wishing there was a way to sort them based on, for instance, whether theyʹre from people to whom youʹve recently sent email.

Well, thatʹs exactly the kind of thing that a new software program, the Social Network And Relationship Finder (SNARF) attempts to do.

It uses a technique called ʺsocial sortingʺ that uses your past emailing history to determine who your friends or important business colleagues are.

This Tip is almost verbatim from Microsoft

When launched for the first time, SNARF indexes your e‐mail.

When indexing is complete, a window with three panes is displayed.

The top pane includes a list of people who have sent recent, unread e‐mail addressed or carbon copied ( c.c. ) to you.

The middle pane includes people who have sent recent, unread e‐mail addressed to anyone.

And the bottom pane includes all people mentioned in any e‐mail you have received in the past week.

A configuration panel enables you to change the types of messages displayed and to sort them in different ways.

Once you have the tool configured as you prefer, you can double‐click on a contact’s name within one of the panes, then view a list of all recent e‐mail from that person.

It works with mailing lists, too, and you can organize mail by threads and read the entire thread in chronological order, top to bottom. Itʹs a free download from Microsoft Research, and you can read more about it at:

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