In Reply to: Re: AMIPP Leader Statutory Default posted by Pete Warren on 21 January 2004 at 08:09:22:
: Webmaster, This guy is a pain, and can't get his facts right. Can you go as far as to cancel his membership?
: I suspect, as many others may do, that he is a plant tasked to disrupt the board.
I can tell you from monitoring the IBM boards on yahoo that it is clear that the Company is engaging in subversion and disruption. The bad news is that it seems no one has yet found a way to deal with it. So they just ignore it. Anyway I doubt this guy signed in as an AMIPP Member as Mr. Beemer!
We must however be on constant guard against infiltration. There was an IBM Alumni Club which was US based long before all the pension issues blew up across the World, but just as the employees took action so the Club closed because the business running it was sold. Some 6000 members details went with it.
You can smell IBM behind it. I would be very surprised indeed if AMIPP had not been the target of IBM infiltration - and very effective infiltration if the experience in the US is anything to go by. There they planted a number of early memebrs of the various message board causes right at the outset and as I hear it these people seemed to be active outraged employees. Then they wanted to talk to people on the phone, and get their identity and finally when it was obvious that they were stooges then they simply engaged in disruption on a massive scale.
How to spot them? Very difficult. But watch the guy who wants to talk offline or who seeks information of a sensitive nature.