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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Short Term Picks From the 'Whiz' Kid
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To: Jim B who wrote (6924)4/27/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (3) of 9115
 
People reading the press release might well come away with the idea that we did it for personal gain. Especially as April Fool's Day, the occasion for the prank, is nowhere mentioned.

There's another thing. According to the press release:

The defendants responded to inquiries about Webnode and collected personal information from nearly 2,000 people who believed, based on information in the phony press release, they had a genuine opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the NGI, the lawsuit alleges.

Actually we didn't respond to anything. The quantity of email was overwhelming; we couldn't even read it all. Readers might be inclined, happening upon the phrase "collected personal information", to believe that we asked for genuinely sensitive data, such as SS number or credit card numbers. Not so: we merely requested that people filling out the forms provide a "username and password". The choice of both was up to them.

Precisely what BizWire's object in all this is, is beyond me.
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