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IP: MS denies faked posts
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:47:31 -0500
<http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/17745.html>http://www.wired. com/news/news/business/story/17745.html Is MS Preening in Public Posts? By Heidi Kriz, Wired News 4:40 p.m. 4.Feb.99.PST A Microsoft spokeswoman denied allegations Thursday afternoon that the company is encouraging its employees to lie in public forums. A message posted to a discussion forum on computer-trade site ZDNet and purporting to be from a former employee, accuses the company of urging employees to post fake comments supporting the company's side in the ongoing Microsoft antitrust trial. The author of the email, posted on ZDNet in a Talkback forum on the Microsoft antitrust trial, claimed her name was Michelle Bradley and that she had "retired" from Microsoft last week. ...... "Microsoft has never had an employee by the name of Michelle Bradley," said Heidi Rothhauser of Waggner Edstrom, Microsoft's PR firm. ..... A search for "Michelle Bradley" in a publicly accessible database turned up an individual with that name living less than 10 miles from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Phone calls to the listed number were not returned. ZDNet operations specialist Drew Ulrickson said the email address for the posting was listed as mibradley () msn com, but he said such an address can easily be faked ..more..... James Glave, News Editor, Wired News http://www.wired.com +1 (415) 276-8430
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