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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (505)	4/29/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3795

Uh oh. Message 8663422 To: ACS_101 (26380 ) From: Janice Shell Thursday, Apr 1 1999 6:37PM ET Reply # of 33714 Really. I think you should be much more careful in what you say here online, lawsuits flying about as they do these days. Wanna go for it, bucko? Wanna say WebNode isn't for real? Well, 1400 urgent emails to our site say otherwise. And there's also this: "Next-Gen Net for sale: WebNode.com said Thursday that it had won an exclusive contract with the US Department of Energy's Office of Science to sell 40 million nodes on the Next-Generation Internet for $100 apiece. Nodes are essentially routes for getting around on the Internet. By selling the nodes, the government hopes to raise the funds needed to pay for the state-of-the-art fiber-optic Net, WebNode.com said. Webnode.com is a division of BZE International, which calls itself a "leader in e-commerce for government entities." The company is pushing nodes as an investment opportunity, projecting that increased Internet traffic will drive up the value of heavily used nodes in the short-term, and all nodes in the long run. wired.com "