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Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers

An SI Board Since April 1999

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Emcee: EL KABONG!!!	Type: Unmoderated

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3320	Actually I live in Italy. The question of BW's jurisdiction over me is sti	Janice Shell	-	7/27/1999
3319	Jeff, I like this part the best: <i>Moore Stephens Lovelace, P.A. state	Tom C	-	7/27/1999
3318	Just to keep BW informed about the company they keep in HITT (in more ways than	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999
3317	Bill, What's the deal with including the HITSGALORE lawsuit stuff? Wouldn&	Tom C	-	7/27/1999
3316	Ha! All those contact numbers are Vancouver area codes...home to many of the wo	Intrepid1	-	7/27/1999
3315	Hi Bill. Don't let the bastards get you down. Question for Janice, assumi	Peter V	-	7/27/1999
3314	hi.	Bill Ulrich	-	7/27/1999
3313	<<Defendants refused [to remove the BW trademark], opting instead to chan	Peter V	-	7/27/1999
3312	Oy! BW has never taken action against any company which actually scams the publ	Bill Ulrich	-	7/27/1999
3311	In retrospect, had Webnode incorporated in Nevada, issued free-trading shares t	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999
3310	I hope your attorney is using the UPCA situation as an exhibit in your reply br	Peter V	-	7/27/1999
3309	STARNET SUED BY LAS VEGAS CASINO, INC. FOR ONE BILLION DOLLARS 7/27/99 11:21 (	Sir Auric Goldfinger	-	7/27/1999
3308	It appears that Business Wire continues, willingly, to be the ultimate mouthpie	Michelino	-	7/27/1999
3307	So true. The SEC didn't seem to have any trouble figuring out that there w	Janice Shell	-	7/27/1999
3306	Sue UPCA for what? We informed BW about UPCA right here on this thread and they	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999
3305	I'd still like to know whether Bizwire plans to sue UPCA.	Janice Shell	-	7/27/1999
3304	re. <<I wonder where HITT got the relevent information on Clute, TX>&g	Q.	-	7/27/1999
3303	Gary Dobry (a.k.a. Spider Valdez and Pugs) has since posted many times that &qu	Janice Shell	-	7/27/1999
3302	LOLOLOL!!! PROOF that HITT's been using false information about me supplie	Janice Shell	-	7/27/1999
3301	Jeff, Here is the first mention of "clute" that I can find on SI. No	EL KABONG!!!	-	7/27/1999
3300	That was a parody of something that really was posted on Business Wire. Here	Q.	-	7/27/1999
3299	<i>...a lot of that looks like something that Pugs or Riley would write..	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999
3298	Indeed, the post number in the HITT complaint is incorrect. The correct number	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999
3297	Jeff, a lot of that looks like something that Pugs or Riley would write, maybe	zonkie	-	7/27/1999
3296	There are so many parts that made me burst out laughing, but this one was parti	Jeffrey S. Mitchell	-	7/27/1999

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