This is especially true with regard to unstructured content, most of which is duplicate information or unnecessary (think of all the junk and transitory email).

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Spam might show up in my inbox a few times each week, while I need to remember to check several layers of junk mail filters for false positives legitimate email marked as spam by an aggressive filter.

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With email, software does a great job of hiding the junk and making the legitimate messages obvious, but there are occasional mistakes.

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We ran this story about conquering your email inbox, which recommends a system of prioritizing urgent items, dealing with short requests quickly, deleting junk and putting less pressing matters on a to-do list.

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