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badclient on March 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Startups, Fix Your "From" Field

So, if you meet ten John Schmidts at a conference and 7 of them email you, you remember all their names? Or you just hit delete?

rhizome on March 24, 2012 [–]

If I was one of those John Schmidts, I would mention the conference. I think this is just a question of providing context in a world of email inundation.

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