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In reply to the discussion: Hillary's Email: How to deal with deleting selected items in a large amount of email. [View all]MineralMan
(146,317 posts)quality of the matching database, nor of how the algorithm was structured. It's clear that you do not, and neither does Mr. Baron, Esq. A keyword-based search can be very useful, if the keyword database is properly structured and populated. Since we do not know any of those details, any speculation about its capabilities is just that: speculation.
Every manual review is also based on a keyword list. That was the point of my OP. Data management strategies can do amazing things. For an example, check Google. It's ranking algorithms are quite effective. I can't imagine how large the underlying data sets are.
Your example of someone else's speculation confirms what I suspected. You actually have zero information about how the winnowing of the emails was done. So, you speculate, based on completely irrelevant information and suspicions. I reject that kind of speculation outright.