[tempestn]

> She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.

Or instead of reinventing the wheel, installed an existing spam detection product like SpamAssassin on the email server.

[blhack]

Or, truly the craziest of possible scenarios: simply followed the instructions given to her by the people administering her access to the government's IT infrastructure.

[tempestn]

I don't disagree with you. Just seemed like we were getting into the bizarre talking about teams of grad students to create something that already existed, unless I just didn't detect the sarcasm.