This must be the hardest working guy at Microsoft. He also posted on the Tulsa-LUG mailing list Friday afternoon (I'm a former BRlug attendee now living in Oklahoma, which is why I'm on both lists). Additionally, I went Googling for his name and email, and found variations of this same message on several boards:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/50/347546/2003-12-09/2003-12-15/0 http://lists.gslug.org/pipermail/gslug-general/2003-November/000090.html http://www.jukie.net/pipermail/ottawa-wifi/2003-December.txt (see the TULSA-LUG posting at the end of this message) -----Original Message----- From: Joey Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Posting from Microsoft Thou spake: >On 2003.12.20 12:27 Dustin Puryear wrote: >> > Welcome to the list, Surkan. No tricks, please. >> >> He isn't on the list. > >I'll bet you a nickle he's paid to read it. > >As for the tricks, well, not even Microsoft can afford to pay enough people > to Steve Barkto every LUG list. Can they? I wonder if you can offshore > trolling and astroturfing. <snip> He contacted me about posting to the NOLUG list, and I told him to get lost. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net from TULSA-LUG On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:48:10AM -0800, Michael Surkan opined: > I am a program manager in the Microsoft networking group, doing some > research around how we can improve our operating systems. My goal is to > help us identify capabilities, improvements, and features that Microsoft > should be focusing on to help our customers over the next 5 years or so. > I am particularly interested in hearing from Linux users, and get their > input about what they feel should be priorities. > > I was wondering if you would mind if I posted a message on your Linux > mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) asking for feedback? I > want to ask for people to e-mail me directly if they would be interested > in taking an on-line survey I have put together (sorry, I don't want to > post the survey URL directly to the public). > > If you don't feel this is an appropriate use of your list, that's fine. > Of course, I am always eager to hear your thoughts if you wanted to > share them. :-) > > Thanks, > > Michael Surkan > > P.S. If it's ok for me to post to your distribution list, what is the > best way I should do that? Is there an e-mail address you recommend I > use?
