One morning, I was cold-calling on these Platte River munis and, against the rules to leave messages, I found myself relating the basics of the bond to the secretary of the President of a monster Denver-based oil company.

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Creating rules and filters that trigger messages, tweets or even HTTP requests are elegant and effortless.

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For instance, the email program lacks the ability to create local folders or rules for auto-sorting messages, and it doesn't allow group addressing.

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