Patent ID: 6970908

Claim:
A method of sending an electronic message comprising: a) examining syntactic content of said electronic message; b) comparing said syntactic content to a keyword database for a syntactic match between said syntactic content and one or more keywords stored in said keyword database; c) examining an addressed destination of said message to determine an identity of an intended addressee; d) comparing said identity of said intended addressee to an addressee database for an address-based match between said identity and one or more addressees stored in said addressee database; e) provided that said message does not have an attachment, alerting a sender of said message that said electronic message does not have an attachment, based on one or more of said syntactic match and said address-based match; and f) automatically updating one or more of said first keyword database, based on said syntactic match, and said addressee database, based on said address-based match wherein, provided that said attachment is attached to said messages a frequency of one or more of a keyword correlation and an address-based correlations to each respective database is increased by one and wherein, provided that said attachment is not attached to said message, a frequency of one or more of said keyword correlation and said address-based correlations is decreased by one.