Microsoft Made Climategate professors Do It!? ‘Calling people ‘frauds’, ‘fraudit’, ‘bozos’, ‘morons’ and so on. It was Microsoft’s fault’
Muir Russell blamed email itself for the language: 'Finding: The extreme modes of expression used in many e-mails are characteristic of the medium....Extreme forms of language are frequently applied to quite normal situations by people who would never use it in other communication channels'