Re[2]: [Am-info] "Stop procrastinating or MS buys this one"

[Gene Gaines]

Marcus,

Golly, U.S. citizenship or residence not a problem.

In the past, Microsoft has bombarded the government
with letter from dead people.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Thursday, January 24, 2002, 3:40:54 AM, Marcus wrote:

> In reply to a message from "Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net> dated 2002-01-23 15:23:39 -0500 (EST) (Wed):

>> Be warned, it is NOT in Microsoft Word format, but is a Describe word document (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 of comments, so that counts me out. Or does it? How can they tell who's at the other end of the SMTP chain? Will they look
> up my name, or my domain name? If the latter, who's to say the message wasn't sent by a U.S. citizen using 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 sent the comment, even if the domain name were registered to a U.S. person or 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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