Look, people, it's about 250 lbs of e-mails.   Most of it crashingly boring, no doubt.   Best bet is probably key words.   Still it will be a huge waste of time in general.   Post, etc, are just trying to play Tom Sawyer painting the fence. Maybe it will work--maybe journalism students will want to do this. Or others with a lot of time to kill.

"Smarmy" is not the first word that comes to mind. More like "desperate"---Post wants to stay relevant to the online generation.    The paper is a dinosaur--and they know it.