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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (3112)	7/1/1999 7:14:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 3795

There's always a back door: dbusiness.digitalwork.com

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (3112)	7/2/1999 7:08:00 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3795

I happened to notice this just now. Forgive me if it is old news, but if you have not seen it, perhaps you might wish to forward it to your attorney. Currently, the following press release is available to be viewed: go2net.newsalert.com This is interesting, due to the fact that it contains a lie about a contract. This company claims to have a contractual agreement with Disney, when in fact that is a lie. They do not have a contractual agreement with Disney. How can I make such a bold statement? go2net.newsalert.com I believe these two press releases illustrate the toughness, the moral fortitude, the almost unimaginable strength of Business Wire to make sure its customers receive the kind of service they deserve, don't you? I mean, someone with a jaundiced view might think that this BB piece of crap invented that story in the first place. They might think that the second press release, which spams DIS like the first one, could have been avoided by simply removing the first one. They might think that the first press release, the one with the lie in it, might have been pulled by Business Wire due to the fact that it could imply that Business Wire lets false information go through them and refuses to do anything about it even when the issuing company publicly admits they lied, and gives Business Wire more money for a new press release to help them publicly admit it! And Business Wire says that the Pairgain thing had them concerned. Yeah, right. This kinda blows their "concerned about the public" argument, eh? What a bunch of immoral jackasses. LOL!

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (3112)	7/7/1999 1:23:00 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Just read the complaint again. I would be very surprised if the lawyers could suppress their laughter when they wrote this paragraph. 25. Instead of removing the BUSINESS WIRE mark from the copy of their fraudulent press release posted on the Webnode.com website, defendants changed the byline on the fraudulent press release to BIDNESS WIRE, a name nearly identical and confusingly similar to Business Wire's Marks. It is the most laughable piece in the complaint, and does not pass the "straight face test" (when lawyers make a questionable argument, the test is whether they could make that argument in court with a "straight face"). "BIDNESS WIRE" is confusingly similar? Maybe to ebonics majors . . . ROFLMAO!!!