You don’t need to understand the details of the message; it’s enough to get the gist of it by seeing which words it contains.

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Full quote in proper context reads: " But that summer Mehran Sahami, then a Stanford graduate student, tried it out during an internship at Microsoft Research, and it worked great. When Bill Gates asked Heckerman how this could be, he pointed out that to identify spam you don’t need to understand the details of the message; it’s enough to get the gist of it by seeing which words it contains."<div><br></div><div>Modified the quote to contemplate the merits of it on a wider range of reading strategies. </div>

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