Month: March 2004

“There aren’t any casual spammers now.”

America Online lawyer Randall Boe, on teaming up with archnemeses Yahoo and Microsoft to hunt down spammers, The New York Times, 11 March 2004

“We ask that you cease immediately the mailing of free software, and other types of gifts, to the Department of the Army personnel. Your offer of free software places our employees and soldiers in jeopardy of unknowingly committing a violation of the ethics rules and regulations to which they have taken an oath to uphold.”

Pentagon lawyer Matt Reres, instructing Microsoft to stop mailing free software to military personnel, News.com, 10 March 2004

“We had a lot of typical things, like company-paid lunches and blue-haired kids running around on skateboards, and it was the time when we thought we were going to rule the world.But I have to get the building in order and return it to the landlord in its original condition.”

Former MP3.com employee David Agresti, who’s now charged with effacing all signs of its erstwhile hipness, Wired News, 9 March 2004

“I just want to thank my readers, my viewers, my Internet users. I just want to thank everyone for their support.”

Domesticity guru Martha Stewart, on getting more affirmations via email than Howard Dean, CNNmoney, 8 March 2004

“The evidence unequivocally confirms that some Republican staff conspired to spy on and steal from their Democratic colleagues. This report indisputably shows that this secret surveillance was calculated, systematic and sweeping in its scope.”

Senator Patrick Leahy (D.-Unix for Dummies), on the discovery that a Republican congressional clerk used wide-open security settings to copy documents from Democrats’ file servers, News.com, 5 March 2004