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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: IN MODERATION
Message-ID: <3482@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 89 16:00:13 GMT
References: <4450@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <4450@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
>Was the announcement about IN MODERATION legit?  It seemed
>to have a satirical tone in parts; the spokesperson's name seemed
>phoney, and the name of the company made me wonder, too.

No, Geoff Goodfellow, his MIPS machine and his company are all real,
and I suspect that the service is too.  The tone was amusing, and I
especially liked the enumeration of advisory board members; a parody
of modern high-tech press puffery striving to achieve some cachet.
Still, if larger firms can do it with a straight face, why not?

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Steve Dyer
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