IP: Even dead people use Microsoft software [maybe only dead people enjoy it ]: [risks] Risks Digest 21.63

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> te: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:19:27 -0400
> From: "Jeremy Epstein" <jepstein () webmethods com>
> Subject: Even dead people use Microsoft software
>
> Computerworld reports that a Microsoft letter-writing campaign opposing the
> anti-trust actions used the names of dead people.  The Utah Attorney
> General, who received the letters, was not amused.  Other Attorneys General
> received duplicate letters with similar problems.  MSFT says they didn't do
> it, but pointed to "Citizens Against Government Waste" which is a leading
> the effort.
>   (http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63256,00.html)
>
> The risk is that any sufficiently automated letter writing system is going
> to eventually screw up and get caught.  Dead people don't handwrite letters.



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