Re: Microsoft Moles

[Hongl Lai <hongli telekabel nl>]

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 19:36, Darin Adler wrote:
> On 1/25/02 10:33 AM, "Ric Tibbetts" <ric chadera net> wrote:
> 
> > As I pointed out on a related thread on another list: That type of
> > attitude reminds me far to much of the Microsoft Moles who infect these
> > lists. Their whole job (and yes, M$ pays them for doing it) is to come
> > onto these lists, and spread just this type of negative feedback, with
> > the intent of making folks dissatisfied with these products, and go back
> > to Windows.
> 
> I appreciate the rest of of what you said in this message.
> 
> But I am curious about this "Microsoft Moles" thing. How do you know that
> Microsoft pays people to do this sort of thing. Is this some sort of
> conspiracy theory, or do you have a reliable source for this allegation?
> 
>     -- Darin
> 

You mean those people actually exist?
(if they do, then that explains a lot of the stupid flamewars on
Slashdot and Gnotices before it was moderated)