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...employees of PeopleSoft, based in Pleasanton, Calif., were not amused. CEO Craig Conway, 48, himself a former Ellison protege, had just successfully negotiated a $1.7 billion merger deal with another rival, Denver-based J.D. Edwards. That was supposed to be the big story in the software business. Then Conway's customers started talking about the Oracle offer and whether they should postpone purchases until things settled down. Even after the PeopleSoft board concluded there would be antitrust problems with an Oracle takeover, Ellison was still pressing the deal on PeopleSoft shareholders. By the end of the week, PeopleSoft...
...spoofs of one sort or another. Brian Westby, a porn-website owner based in St. Louis, Mo., was a classic spoofer: the subjects for his Xrated spam included "Good evening," "What's going on?" and "Please resend the email." Westby's spam deluged a bank in Santa Barbara, Calif., and an Internet service provider in Coatesville, Pa., some of whose clients angrily canceled their service. The FTC finally got a federal judge in Chicago to shut down Westby's operation. A trial is pending...
Some spam victims aren't waiting for the state laws to kick in. They have become spam vigilantes. Marketer Dan Balsam in Santa Monica, Calif., has waged a one-man legal campaign against spammers who refuse to remove him from their mailing lists. No judgment has netted him more than $1,000, but Balsam isn't in it for the money. "I'm trying to raise the cost of spammers doing business," he says. Los Angeles software engineer Bill Silverstein has taken an even more creative approach. When he wanted to sue a company that refused to stop sending...
...filmmaker. Now that I'm in my early 30s, I figured I've done that. I just wanted to have fun." Car movies also touch the infantile urge to go fast and break things. "I love to see things get smashed," says Jesse James, the Long Beach, Calif., custom-motorcycle builder who hosts the Discovery Channel's Monster Garage. "It's as simple as that...
...should be, and we wrongly projected our anger at Yoko for interfering with our idolization of him. How petty we all were! Yet how very heartening to read that she is finally being recognized for the talent John always saw in her. Congratulations, Yoko. PATRICIA BECKER-SPELLMAN Stevenson Ranch, Calif...