Posting went thru?

[Alex Beamish]

On 8/4/05, John Macdonald <john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:14:56AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > | From: Stewart C. Russell <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
> >
> > |  strings evil.doc | fmt -s
> > |
> > | If you can't get the sense of the document out of that, it probably wasn't
> > | worth reading.
> >
> > Unfortunately deleted text could show up without being distinguished.
> > Could lead to much confusion.
> 
> While it can lead to confusion for the reader, it can be an
> even worse problem for the sender, who thought that the deleted
> text was really gone and didn't want it to be seen at all.
> 
> I seem to recall that Microsoft got badly embarassed by an
> instance of this during their antitrust trial in the U.S. and
> SCO was probably not intending to tell the world that their
> lawsuit against Daimler-Chrysler was originally drafted to be
> against (CitiBank? or BankOfAmerica?) and they changed targets
> at the last minute.

Bank of America. See http://www.groklaw.net/ for the details.

Alex

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