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

Hans Reiser reiser@namesys.com
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:03:59 +0300


So, do I understand correctly that to comment we email the DOJ, not fax 
the court?  The DOJ then gives it to the judge?

I prepared a comment for sending tonight.  Any advice on format?  I was 
planning on plain ascii.

Hans

Erick Andrews wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:40:54 +0000, Marcus de Geus wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Regards,
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>>Marcus de Geus
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>You could contact them and ask.
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>I don't have a voice phone number at the DoJ
>but their e-mail is 
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>microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov
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>and their fax numbers are 
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>1-202-307-1454 and 1-202-616-9937.
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