Just found some new ones that are worth sharing.
This one was mentioned before...
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html
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| * Paid for ads purportedly from a think-tank, although at least one
| signer of the ad defended it. You might want to take a closer look at
| what the
| web has to offer on this issue.
| * Paid for Gartner "research" and DH Brown "research". Also paid for
| IDC "research".
| * Planned to plant fake op-ed pieces in local newspapers. See also this
| C|Net article.
| * Fake "grass root" letter writing campaign. See also this article. This
| time, the astroturf is directed to Attorneys General of the US states
| suing Microsoft for anti-trust violations.
| * Planted shills in a Compuserve forum
| * Planted shills in ZDNet TalkBack forum and MSNBC forum shills
| * Planted shills in an AOL forum
| * Stuffed an on-line ballot box
| * Stuffed another on-line ballot box
| * Fund a think-tank to produce a favorable whitepaper.
| * Astroturfed a Register reporter
| * Secretly funded a Grass roots Network of "Citizens".
| * Analysis of Microsoft lobbying and astroturfing
| * Posted fake user testimonials. See also this commentary.
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Here are a few others that COLA didn't include before:
The Barkto Incident
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| Not long after the Barkto affair, a similar incident occurred on another
| forum on CompuServe. In the LANMAG forum (short for LAN Magazine), a man
| named Bill Diamond showed up one day and began offering to one and all
| his views on varioius networking solutions. Bill's views just happened
| to be highly critical of those from IBM (especially OS/2), and from
| Novell, whose turf MS is trying to crash with their NT and NTAS
| products. But he was very lavish in praise for those from Microsoft.
| More than a couple of the forum regulars noticed this slant to his posts
| and asked him directly if he were a Microsoft employee. No, he said: he
| was an independent consultant. If you're guessing that he wasn't being
| entirely honest, you're right: he was a Microsoft employee.
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http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01529.html
I think I saw this one in the Comes vs Iowa case or some other article.
More here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040222192500/http://w3.hethmon.com/os2isp/1999/Aug/Msgs/l2w15889.html
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