It would be kind of funny if the stakes weren't so high. Regards, Dale Mentzer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>The Microsoft Corporation acknowledged Thursday that one of its >>programmers apparently masqueraded as an independent computer consultant >>earlier this week in an effort to discredit America Online's tactics in the >>companies' quarrel over instant messaging. >> >>Microsoft had reason to be red-faced about the incident Thursday -- >>first, because the company was unable to identify which employee had forged >>an e-mail message on Tuesday accusing America Online of irresponsible >>behavior, and second, because whoever did it sent the message to the one >>computer security expert who was most likely to find a way to trace it >>back to Microsoft. >> >>The ruse has added a bit of Spy vs. Spy melodrama to a bitter dispute >>over instant online messaging that America Online and Microsoft -- the >>world's two largest Internet service providers -- have been waging for >>several weeks. The dispute began last month when Microsoft introduced a >>clone of the AOL Instant Messenger program, which permits computer users to >>chat over the Internet with other computer users. >> >>From >>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/13soft.html. This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows http://home.arachne.cz Arachne DOS Browser Home Page To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
