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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