[thechat] April fool spotting

martin at members.evolt.org martin at members.evolt.org
Mon Apr 2 00:51:20 CDT 2001


At 14:01 01/04/01 -0700, Joe Crawford wrote:
> > Much too plausible - if it is an April fool, it needs
> > more indicators (although the MacEvangelist one
> > was *too* obvious). I'm reserving judgement on whether
> > this is one at all.
>
>You may be right Martin. I was reading it as an ebay press release - in
>which the "locking in" comment would be clearly April-1-worthy. But now I'm
>just confused.

The problem with spotting April Fools for ecommerce is so many things
which would normally be plainly absurd are all too likely to be serious.

Cheers
Martin





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