I'm out of the office Monday, Sept. 19

[John]

Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:07:14PM -0400, Sharon_Machlis at computerworld.com said:
> 
>>I will be out of the office starting  09/19/2005 and will not return until
>>09/20/2005.
> 
> 
> I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here about information leakage,
> but I'll save it until somebody from Microsoft or Apple makes this
> mistake.

IBMers do it all the time. One time, one whose surname is Ditto went 
away, and we were still discussing it when she returned a week or so later.

Partly, this occureed because there's a rather famous tape copying 
program that's been around since the days of DOS (this is the real DOS, 
written for IBM mainframes, and nothing at all like pcdos) before 
peecee, back in the 60s) of the same name.