[ale] A little show of force?

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

Count me in also please! Next question - where does the money need to be 
sent?

On 21 Aug 2003, Matthew Brown wrote:

> I'm in!
> 
> Sorry, was that two words?
> 
> I'm real in!
> 
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:57, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hmmm...
> > 
> > How much does a one page one time add in the AJC cost...
> > Split across a hundred members of a mailing list..
> > 
> > Probably still steep..
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ____________________________________________
> > ctcrreho at opm.gov
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: F. Grant Robertson [mailto:f.g.robertson at alexiongroup.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:18 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] A little show of force?
> > 
> > Something, anything..  Please dear god in heaven. Anything to wake up
> > anyone in media. I don't know if a show is the idea, but couldn't we
> > all
> > start writing letters to local stations demanding that they at least
> > present the whole picture when talking about viruses? 
> > 
> > I just watched a 5 minute segment on Fox 5 news about SoBig. In 5
> > minutes, not _one_ _single_ _solitary_ _mention_ of the fact that only
> > Microsoft systems are vulnerable, no mention of business who use macs
> > or
> > linux being immune.. nothing. They didn't even use the *word*
> > microsoft
> > in the report. I really didn't think it was possible to do 5 minutes
> > on
> > it without using the word Microsoft, but they managed.
> > 
> > I am consistently amazed at this. If *anything* else caused such
> > massive
> > disruption, the media would stand on it like a soapbox. Crikey, they
> > even did most of the report from the VA hospital, not a single mention
> > of the wasted tax dollars in productivity or IT overtime. I'm so fed
> > up
> > with this, and I know many of you are too.. what are we going to do
> > about it?  
> > 
> > Sigh, Linux needs a massive PR machine. 
> > -G
> > 
> > 
> > 
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