[Am-info] "Stop procrastinating or MS buys this one"

[Marcus de Geus]

In reply to a message from "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> dated 2002-0=
1-23 15:23:39 -0500 (EST) (Wed):

> Be warned, it is NOT in Microsoft Word format, but is a Describe word doc=
ument (they were a competitor to MS Word).

Their product still is, as far as I am concerned.

Re the Tunney Act, I assume that U.S. citizenship is required for senders o=
f comments, so that counts me out. Or does it? How can they tell who's at t=
he other end of the SMTP chain? Will they look up my name, or my domain nam=
e? If the latter, who's to say the message wasn't sent by a U.S. citizen us=
ing my e-mail system? Who's to say the message wasn't sent by me using a U.=
S. citizen's name? How would they even be able to tell that a real person s=
ent the comment, even if the domain name were registered to a U.S. person o=
r company? All in all, the whole setup appears rather less than watertight =
to me. Remember, these considerations apply equally to pro-MS messages.

Regards,

Marcus de Geus
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