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To: Tom C who wrote (3097)6/26/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3795
 
Starts [babelfish won't do much at a time] -

"Purchase you a piece of the Internet!

Actually it should become only a nice April joke, when three young Americans sent a
press release away to 1 April over the liable to pay the costs PR Distributionsdienst
Business Wire.

businesswire.com /

Contents of this press release referred to the Site of a company named WebNode,
which concerns itself allegedly with the sales of Internet proportions: " you should not
only use that Internet, but possess! "

webnode.com

From the further text of the press release it followed that this enterprise had been
assigned by the US energy Ministry, 4 billion dollar for ..." [babelfish limit i suppose]