On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:23:36 +0100, Hadron wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:53:19 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> The Best Enthusiasm Money Can Buy
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> We might think that spending several hundreds of millions of dollars
>>>>> every year on commercial speech would be just about enough to allow
>>>>> any company
>>>>> to "tell its story" to the public. But we would not be Microsoft,
>>>>> who the Los Angeles Times revealed was gearing up a multi-million
>>>>> dollar public relations campaign which included planting ersatz
>>>>> letters to the editor in major national newspapers. The goal: to
>>>>> create the appearance, if not the reality, of "grassroots" support
>>>>> for the company.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Spontaneous" testimonials penned by hired guns may not be an
>>>>> entirely novel idea in the surreal world of public relations, but
>>>>> Microsoft's response to having been caught in the act of committing
>>>>> such a crass act was certainly uncommon. At first, the company
>>>>> denied their intentions to actually implement such a plan. Then, a
>>>>> few days later, company spokespersons announced a new spin:
>>>>> Microsoft has a perfect right to engage in public opinion
>>>>> manipulation campaigns, if that's what it takes to "tell its story."
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, what exactly was that story, again?
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml
>>>
>>> Why are you posting articles from 'Boycott MS' sites, but leave all your
>>> Windows and VB work experience on your resume? Stallman would be so pissed.
>>
>> Because Roy Schestowitz is a hypocrite.
>>
>> All of this so called "advocacy" that Roy is pretending to do is nothing
>> more than self serving fodder to seed search engines and splatter his
>> websites all over the place.
>
> I can't help feeling that his plan has backfired a little.
Between the fact that he's been sponging off Mark Kent's connection being
exposed, a trojan planted on www.schestowitz.com and then that site being
hacked and 0wned as well, I would tend to agree with you.
But yet the paid for SPAM just keeps on flowing.
Roy Schestowitz's masters must be very pleased with his tenacity.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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