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Fascinating, Mike, a scenario that never occurred to me for a moment. No, I
don't suppose it would be a high paid job attracting talent, therefore the 'team' probably consists largely if not entirely of bored individuals who apply their own prejudices the same way the average person fails to grasp the fundamentals of impartiality, and so it would indeed be a rapid turnover. To make a wild guess - that I'd expect to be wrong, but would like to believe for the sake of neatness - MS farmed it out about the same time they reinstated the MVP program? Though I'm not sure 'reinstated' is really appropriate, so much as 'hijacked by the PR dept'. I wouldn't expect an answer to this, but I'd be equally fascinated to know if MS paid for the flights to the MVP get-togethers in the States. Because if all an individual sees, beyond the invite, is free MS software, the reward looks about as ethical as the way they got the near-monopoly on the desktop (which was ironic as my current position is that only MS make a desktop product worth bothering with and that every version of Windows from 32 bit onward is better than every version of any other desktop operating system currently in production). Shane Mike M wrote: FYI The "team", if one is prepared to grace them with such a name, responsible for maintaining the NGs are external contractors and have been now for some years. Basically they haven't a clue and the gut feeling is that team members last just a few weeks before leaving. The result is that no-one seems to know how the filters work or why many even exist. Few at Microsoft know anything about NNTP and even less seem to care. There are however a dedicated few Microsoft employees who go to extraordinary lengths to try and keep spam and the like to a minimum but I suspect that even they must be close to despair as it appears that their requests to the "team" are often ignored. Well, it does happen automatically, has done for years. And to put serial offenders in would be easy. But then MS has many times demonstrated questionable priorities. Cases in point the Privacy settings in IE, Root Certificates etc. You might say it's very American, where Business is Inherently 'Good' and if it is not already legislated against and is obviously intended to profit, it is allowed to continue despite other things being mercilessly crushed though one might consider the potential 'harm' of each to be essentially equivalent. Of course, we do this too, just more imitatively - although I suspect Jacqui Smith is imitating Mary Whitehouse rather than the US. (Just been reading about the California violent video games bill being overturned by the Federal Court!) But, really, I've made numerous posts over the years to test it and include certain words and you'll never see them - or at best you'll be able to see them flicker into and out of existence like a virtual particle. |
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I wouldn't expect an answer to this
This is just - in case anyone just read this and got the wrong idea - to clarify that this is not meant to be derogatory in any way; rather I think it quite proper to decline to divulge such info. I consider Mike to be an honourable man - and not in the way Brando meant it about Brutus, though it was and remains a stunning movie. Shane |
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![]() "Shane" wrote in message ... I wouldn't expect an answer to this This is just - in case anyone just read this and got the wrong idea - to clarify that this is not meant to be derogatory in any way; rather I think it quite proper to decline to divulge such info. I consider Mike to be an honourable man - and not in the way Brando meant it about Brutus, though it was and remains a stunning movie. We hear you, loud and clear, good man. It is always a pleasure to read you epistles. Harry. Shane |
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