On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jason wrote:
howdy,
as a direct competitor, i feel that the less publicity given to their
spam, the better, i've seen that ridiculous posting 4 times today and
i wonder how many other poor folks have had it injected/forwarded into
their mailboxes :(
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/torqumada
> Jeff Waugh wrote: > >
> > So, you get some weirdarse email when you're on a LUG committee...
> >
> > (Boring stuff snipped at the end, including the "Microsoft is an equal
> > opportunity employer" line. Obviously we're now part of this equality.)
>
> I got the exact same email with slight variations on numerous technical
> mailing lists I'm on -- it appears to have been formletterified, with
> one copy having "Delphi developers" instead of "Linux/Unix". I'm not
> sure what Holly is trying to achieve, does Microsoft really need to spam
> in order to get applications for its developer positions? Methinks the
> developers would come to them.
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