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

To: zonkie who wrote (1637)	5/4/1999 11:03:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3795

to late, it's in print now. She is quoted in Bloomberg and can't recant. Unless of course she wants to sue Bloomberg...

To: zonkie who wrote (1637)	5/5/1999 8:17:00 AM
From: John Sladek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3795

Zonkie, Bloomberg Article: At Business Wire, spokeswoman Cathy Baron Tamraz said, ''We are not a sue-happy company.'' The webnode.com prank, though, ''went beyond the boundaries of an April Fool's joke'' and was particularly troubling on the heels of the April 7 hoax on the Internet that boosted shares of PairGain Technologies Inc., Tamraz said. quote.bloomberg.com Did the PairGain incident have any influence on Business Wire's decision to sue the Webnode pranksters? Baron Tamraz says, "Not really. But the incident does point out the dangers of Internet fraud ... They're giving the Internet a very bad name." salonmagazine.com I like that part where Tamaraz says that the incident points out the dangers of internet fraud - maybe they are finally starting to get the point of the whole thing. Ragards, John Sladek