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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 (3671)	12/20/1999 3:03:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Re: Webnode "honored" as event of the day on 4/1/99 by ICWhen.com APRIL (1999) - On Thursday, April 1, April Fool?s Day, Business Wire, a business oriented press release hub, distribute, what they believe, is a legitimate announcement of a new online investment opportunity for a company named WebNode (www.webnode.com). According to the release, the company had won a government contract to raise $4 billion in a bid to build a better Internet. Almost 2,000 inquiries were generated by the release that later turned out to be a practical joke. Mr. Jeffrey Mitchell, Mr. William Ulrich and Ms. Anice [sic] Shell paid Business Wire $260 to issue the release and were later sued (Monday, April 26) by Business Wire alleging trademark violations, fraud and breach of contract as well as defamation and conspiracy. icwhen.com (and then click on the year 1999 and scroll down to April 1) - Jeff