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IP: MS employees asked to post to online forums posing as students
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 17:52:45 -0500
OBVIOUSLY I DO NOT VOUCH FOR THE TRUTH OF THIS ONE> but Love is usually reliable djf Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:22:42 -0500 From: James Love <love () essential org> Post regarding Microsoft's requests that employees pose as independent supporters of MS in online forums. Jamie http://www.zdnet.com/talkback/22_26562_108781.html Name: Michelle Bradley Location: null Occupation: X MS employee MS issues marching orders ... I can safely tell this now, since I 'retired' from Redmond last week. A verbal memo (no e-mail allowed) was passed around the MS campus encouraging MS employee's to post to Z-Net articles like this one. The theme is "MicroSoft is responsible for all good things in computerdom. The government has no right to prevent MS from doing anything. Period. The 'memo' suggests we use fictional names and state, and to identify ourselves as students." It is interesting to count the postings that do exactly this. Most interesting, indeed. James Love <love () essential org>
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