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To: Intrepid1 who wrote (4)	4/27/1999 3:52:00 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

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To: Intrepid1 who wrote (4)	4/27/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

You said: In my dealings with Business Wire the only thing they ever bothered to verify was the credit card number. and It was a bona fide news release but Business Wire made not one effort to establish this fact. As I said all they were interested in was the money. In my opinion Business Wire is just a whore news wire service. You give them a few hundred bucks and they'll give you a release. What procedures do the Dow Jones and Reuters use to verify a story before releasing it?