Rumor Monger was pretty awesome. My memory is that it took only a few weeks for management to clamp down. First message, "Look people, HR is really unhappy wit

Rumor Monger was pretty awesome. My memory is that it took only a few weeks for management to clamp down. First message, "Look people, HR is really unhappy with this. Be responsible." Whereupon, many people who didn't even know about RM went off and installed it, with predictable results. Second message, "If you're running Rumor Monger, we want you to turn it off." Apparently this message varied by group; I had no idea that RM hadn't been simply banned company-wide. [Arthur C Clarke wrote an RM-like system into his book _The Songs of Distant Earth_; it allowed ship-wide anonymous communication, and somehow it didn't go off-the-rails nasty.]