__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 12 July 2006 08:56 \__
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> ws <see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Just found the following:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfer
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>>>
>>> And I will never let go the following:
>>>
>>> http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.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 won the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
>>> `----
>>
>>
>> Oh yes! Old news here. You can ask E. "Munchkin" Funkenbusch all about
>> what happened. After all, he was there.
>>
>
> Don't you mean "still is here"?
Yeah, 'xactly! Isn't there a law against Munchkins? If not, there *should*
be.
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