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Determining the extent of MCI’s guilt

Opinion
Aug 11, 20032 mins
Enterprise Applications

* Determining the extent of MCI’s guilt * Buzz is a little bigger this week * Strange bedfellows * Dissecting Microsoft’s identity management moves

Determining the extent of MCI’s guilt

Are the latest allegations of MCI’s misconduct further proof that the company should simply be scrapped? Or are they more like “taking a blowtorch to a mosquito”? This week two Network World columnists – while agreeing that MCI’s behavior has been horrendous and should be punished – disagree over the impact of the latest news.

Mark Gibbs: MCI rotten to the core

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0811backspin.html?vo

Johna Till Johnson: Latest MCI ‘scandal’ isn’t what it appears to be

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0811eye.html?vo

Buzz is a little bigger this week

Your spam filter would probably kill this newsletter if I spelled out what ‘Net Buzz’s column examines this week. Suffice it to say that columnist Paul McNamara finds out that he has given people too much credit when it comes to spam; they’re actually dumber than he thought.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0811buzz.html?vo

Strange bedfellows

Speaking of spam, Linda Musthaler this week devotes her column to the issue of the antispam legislation currently being considered in Congress. She says the work has an unlikely supporter: someone who does a lot of marketing through e-mail. What’s wrong with this picture?

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0811musthaler.html?vo

Dissecting Microsoft’s identity management moves

If you’ve been wondering what to make of Microsoft’s actions in the identity management area, read this Intranet Advisor column by Daniel Blum. There’s good news and bad news, he says.

https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0811blum.html?vo