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Re: Caught in the act: Microsoft just fixed its page.



Brett Glass wrote:

>An overinflated sense of self-importance, eh? Now THERE'S the pot calling
>the (copper) kettle black!
>
>--Brett

You yourself said that the document appeared to be in a state of revision
when you first found it, didn't you?  If that is the case, why should we
think that the revisions that continued to occur had anything to do with
your posting information to this list?


>At 12:29 PM 7/29/98 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Brett Glass wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft removed the embarrassing errors from its page within the last few
>>> minutes. This is an indication of how avidly they must monitor this list!
>>
>>An overinflated sense of self-importance, perhaps? Correlation !=
>>causation.
>>
>>-Declan
>>



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