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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers

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To: Cindy Powell who wrote (1529)	5/5/1999 1:46:00 AM
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I can understand all those that know Janice, Jeff, and Bill on Silicon Investor rushing to their defense... so can i. the good-natured positions adopted by wired news and many of the posters are tempting: janice, jeff, and bill are a fun-loving bunch who deserve to be congratulated for such a creative prank. it was nothing serious because the company does not exist. There was no criminal intent to defraud investors. Anyone who fell for it should be grateful for the free investment lesson. The australians did it too, and on a grander scale. perhaps the attorneys at business wire should sit down, take a stress pill, and think things over... however, i can't rid myself of the lingering suspicion that there is, at least potentially, something extremely dangerous about condoning this type of activities because when april fool's day is over the material facts remain: the perpetrators, prolific posters that they are, already admitted that the press release was intended to mislead investors (whether the term describes the fools who fell for the release is irrelevant), and harm business wire by exposing it – uh, I mean - by portraying it as a paid advertiser...

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