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To: pompsander who wrote (68945)	3/22/2001 8:42:16 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi pompsander; You've had the same job for 15 years? You must have the world's dullest career. Over the last 15 years, most of the engineers I know have worked for about 5 different companies. Heck, it's hard to find a .com that's even 5 years old, where do you think they hired all their engineers from? In Germany, my guess is that people stay with a company for a longer time, but even there they don't stay at the same job. And we all know that it's very hard to find records on computers from 10 years ago. -- Carl P.S. I worked at one company, and about 3 months after I left, they got in contact with me because they had lost the last copy of some stuff I'd designed there. They thought that there was some chance I'd taken a copy with me. So I have no doubt that companies lose old documents with great regularity.

To: pompsander who wrote (68945)	3/22/2001 8:58:25 PM
From: froland	Respond to of 93625

Pomp: I don't know if everyone is familiar with the requirements of a compelled documents search, but it is a little hard to believe a memo with that many addressees could fail to be found...or remembered, so as to be disclosed in explanation if not in hard copy. a document search is an extensive, nasty, process.....bad memories don't cut it for obvious reasons. The judicial system must rely on all parties honestly producing required documents, witnesses, testimony,etc. or the system fails. Chaos. IFX executives care little about the US judicial system. I expect relevant documents have already been disappeared. The law partner overseeing the search will in all probability come up empty. I spent 10 years working for Siemens, I have some insights into how those guys operate. I'm over half expecting IFX to go to trial. If IFX settles pre-trial, it will be a public admission of wrongdoing on their part which I expect would taint the executives careers. If they go to trial and lose, the executives careers are screwed but if they go to trial and win, they can redeem themselves. The only way I see it that IFX executives can emerge from this cleanly is if they go to trial and somehow win. froland.