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

To: Hoatzin who wrote (67)	4/27/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 3795

We may have found one of Riley's elk here - ""It was a phony press release about a totally make-believe company, and it went totally beyond the bounds of an April Fool's joke," said Business Wire spokeswoman Cathy Baron Tamraz. "We believe it was a malicious attempt to mislead and caused significant damage to Business Wire's reputation." Silly me ... I, like wired.com and the rest of humanity, thought it was all about poking fun at investor credulity.

To: Hoatzin who wrote (67)	4/27/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: Anaxagoras	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3795

Did you note what the BS (oops, make that BW) spokeswoman said? <<"We believe it was a malicious attempt to mislead and caused significant damage to Business Wire's reputation." >> Yeah, right. Rather, it was a clever attempt to educate and caused significant amusement to many folks that have a grip on reality. Any damage to BW's reputation is of their own making in pursuing this ridiculous and harassing suit. OTOH, since PR is precisely their business, perhaps they truly believe that any publicity is "good" publicity. ;-) And really, that reporter should have refrained from the gratuitous reference to the Pairgain criminal fraud that was obviously different in virtually every important respect. Anaxagoras