18th Sep 2002
Exhibit Q, Letter From Mom:
A Nun, A Crackwhore and a Duck Walk Into a Bar…
Okay, I have one more favorite email snafu story (see below). A friend in the dot-com space has a twin brother who was a top project manager at Microsoft working on some aspect of the Internet Explorer team, back in the early days of the Justice Department’s pursuit of Microsoft for monopoly stuff. At one point the brother has his email subpoenaed by the Justice Department. That is, all the emails he’s ever written or received for the full three years he’s worked at Microsoft.
Can you imagine? Having all your emails submitted as legal evidence to the government?
His biggest worry was all the really disgusting smutty jokes sent to him over the years on a daily basis by his mother. My friend (the brother) said her sense of humor was so vile he deleted them without opening them.
That and the messages his brother would send him (twin humor) to the effect of “Say, Bob, what was that you were saying on the phone last night about you and your guys at Microsoft planning to crush Netscape like a wiggly worm by any means necessary?” to which the brother would reply, “I have no idea what you’re talking about, Sam. Here at Microsoft we expect our products to win or lose in the marketplace based solely on their merits to the consumer…”
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