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" I spend a lot of time reading. "

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" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "

" SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail. "

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