"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
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> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/ms2000main.html
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Interesting, especially how it ends an a concillitory note. Agi-prop?
Where I work we have the same sort of culture. Anyone can, and does,
email anyone else.
I prefer email to phone for the simple reason when some one asks for a
change in a program, or wants to tell me about a bug, I want it in
writing. When people call and begin discussing some topic, and I don't
care what the topic is, I usually say I am "too busy to hold a phone
conference right now, would they please email me?" I want that audit
trail. If someone tells me they can't put it in writing my 'crap'
detector goes off, and I become immediately suspicious. I've had people
say one thing to me and another thing to some one else. Email locks
their "story" in, and if there are problems they have to re-explain what
they mean. It has cut down on 99% of the office turmoil associated
with "miscommunications" and office politics.
If M$ doesn't retain their email culture my first assumption is that
they are not being honest.
If they were being honest their first defense against a DOJ attorney
attempting to distort the meaning of an email message is to display and
read all the email messages on that topic the preceeded and followed the
msg in question. The truth will be obvious, most of the time.
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