IP: MS employees asked to post to online forums posing as students

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>