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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> MSN Is Spamming The Blogosphere
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Mr. Youth LLC is a marketing firm and lists MSN as a customer. Their
>| website is here: http://www.mryouth.com/ Their phone number is
>| (212) 779-8700.
>|
>| I?ve talked to a couple of other bloggers who said they are receiving
>| similar comments on their blogs. This pisses me off because MSN/Mr.
>| Youth should 1) be more upfront about their true identity, and 2)
>| provide a real e-mail address so that I can request they take my
>| blog off their marketing campaign.
> `----
>
> http://www.scott-o-rama.com/2006/12/06/msn-is-spamming-the-blogosphere/
>
Of course they're doing that - why wouldn't they? There's no wonder
major corporates wanted to hold ISPs responsible for content which
passed through their network, or was hosted on their machines; once
they've achieved that, they can then use the legal system to remove
anything which isn't in their corporate interests, and replace it with
spam.
>
> Related:
>
> Microsoft Traps and Hunts for Bloggers in India !!
>
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>| Microsoft has announced the "Microsoft BlogStars" contest, to Hunts
>| for Developer Bloggers in India. After feeling the power and increase of
>| the Bloggers community in India, Microsoft tries to trap and hunt Bloggers
>| in India to buildup the blogging community, for writing blog posts
>| supporting towards Microsoft Technologies.
> `----
>
> http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-bloggers.html
>
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
>| online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
>| of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
>| was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
>| and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
>| liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows wont
>| he operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
>|
>| Mr Dvorak wonders if Microsoft is today using reverse-dirty-tricks
>| to promote the Xbox 360: pay people to create Web sites that slam the
>| gaming computer in order to provoke a barrage of defenders.
> `----
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
>
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
>| sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
>| posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
>| the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
>| Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
>| Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
>| and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
>| Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
>| Chairman Bill.
>|
>| These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
>| state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
>| own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
>| being written by dead people.
>|
>| And the astroturf taint continues today.
>|
>| Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
>| to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
>| the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
I've always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
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