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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3024)	6/20/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3795

This seems pretty serious to me, too. I'm wondering why BW hasn't responded in any way. I mean, DAYS have passed, and that fraudulent (according to DDEQ) press release is still online... Please, Jeff, explain to us again what the procedure is when one submits a PR to Bizwire. What do they ask? I should think they'd want an account number, right? Did some crafty shareholder somehow learn the appropriate account number? We can't rule this out. So: what happened the last time you tried to submit a PR to BW?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3024)	6/20/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 3795

Yes, that one and Razorbak's fntt short story - #reply-10092049 - make excellent examples. Now i betcha that somewhere, somehow, some tech whiz has them saved to disk in toto -g-

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3024)	6/20/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Jeff, Let's make sure I have this correct. Biz Nuss Wire goes out of its way to sue a company that was not a company and had no shares to sell (WebNode), while it does not do the same when share holders can (or do) lose real money? I'll have to ask Jed but that seems like a clear cut case of harassment by the folks at BW who sued. Sure sounds a double standard. Worst, as WebNodes was a joke but people losing money is not as serious judging by BW reactions once they were made aware of the fake release. I'd bring suit on Monday against BW for harassment and a counter suit for all trouble caused the FBN gang for being sued by BW. The poison tree. Everything came from BW suing the FBN gang over WebNode. Since it is not important enough for BW to sue ALL people for a fake release, especially when people can and are losing money, there is a double standard here. I'll have to ask Jed but I think a jury hates a double standard more than anything. Time to sue BW for harassment. I mean what can they say, "your honor we thought people losing real money with a fake news release was funny but that the WebNode April Fools thing was snot funny." If BW is smart they will do what they should of done a long time ago. Drop it. Your pal, BLUE