Re: MS Stealth PR

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

New medium, old tactics.

Microsoft has, for years, "planted" people in online discussions
to advocate Microsoft's positions. One of the first and most
artless attempts to do this was the famous "Barkto" incident
on CompuServe; however, Microsoft has continued to do it on
other online forums.

It's no surprise that they are expanding these efforts to
the print media.

--Brett Glass

At 12:26 PM 4/10/98 -0400, James Love wrote:
>Several persons have sent me this URL, which is indeed an interesting
>story.
>
>http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/BUSINESS/UPDATES/lat_microsoft0410.htm
>
>
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>James Love
>Consumer Project on Technology
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