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[AlMaur777 AT aol.com]

In a message dated 5/3/2002 11:59:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu writes:


> the Dot-com Bummer," and to bring a coffee mug from a failed Internet venture,
> for filling with a hearty helping of hobo stew
>
> Maybe we could throw our own version of this:


 I still have a huge collection of green dbusiness.com stress balls. We could give away leftover dot com giveaways at the door. The box with hundreds of the stress balls arrived a week or so before the company changed its name to localbusiness.com. 
A sterling example of the marketing genius that led to the company's resounding collapse in April 2001.


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