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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14065)	11/12/1997 10:07:00 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 24154

Wait until they start going after appointing a new unbiased Attorney General. Harvey BTW "12 by 18 color glossy photograph pixures" remembering more with pleasure. PS >The letter-writing campaign was brought to my attention by a > Microsoft developer who doesn't want his name used Why would a developer not want his name used?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14065)	11/12/1997 10:42:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

It's Bedlam at Microsoft abcnews.com Omigosh, erstwhile professional Microsuckup Fred Moody turns on his masters! A few weeks back, there occurred at the Microsoft Corp. an eerily prophetic and symbolic episode that signaled to the world that the company is doomed. Microsoft, it is now clear, is peopled largely by egomaniacs whose self-importance prevents them from exercising the kind of self-criticism that until now has been the key to Bill Gates and Company's outsized success. Gates, it should be noted, rails constantly on the need for humility and the dangers of complacency on his campus. He believes that pride brought down the established companies Microsoft fought against on its way from startup to behemoth, and he never stops exhorting his minions to look for their own weaknesses rather than take comfort in their own strengths.[me: I never said Bill was dumb] Spend any time on the Microsoft campus and you can see why he is so worried. There is a palpable hauteur there, an arrogance in many workers that translates into an unspoken but unmistakable declaration: "Because I work at Microsoft, I am more important, smarter and busier than you." Oh my. I thought arrogance was company policy. I guess viewing Microsoft PR as having something to do with reality is an internal problem as well as an external problem. This brings us to last month's brouhaha, when someone inadvertently sent an incomprehensible message to an 18,000-member Microsoft e-mail alias, Bedlam3, that had been set up for testing only. Rather than trashing the mail, employees in droves sent "get me off this list!" vanity messages out to everyone else on the list, with the result that the Microsoft e-mail system crashed and real mail was either delayed for days or was lost. The company, in short, was felled by its own pride. Not everyone at Microsoft, of course, is given to such self-destructive vanity. "The e-mail fiasco was a disaster," wrote one grizzled and sensible veteran. "I was on the alias and probably got around 300-400 'why am I on this, take me off' messages. They should be all fired and their options shared among the people who didn't act like idiots." The grizzled veteran is being a bit arrogant himself. This is all sort of weird to this grizzled old timer, figuring out the difference between respond to list and respond to sender is something most people learn pretty quickly, though often after an embarassing blunder or two. Sort of like the buffer overrun IE bug, which was oddly similar to the (probably forgotten now) Internet worm incident of 10+ years ago. I bet whoever deleted Fred's voice mail won't do it again. Cheers, Dan.