[WikiEN-l] Re: Friday's featured article

Thu Mar 31 00:14:22 UTC 2005

Violet/Riga wrote:

>May I remind people that the hoax must be done before midday otherwise
>"you become the fool".  That might lessen the impact of the hoax.
>
>
On the net, April Fools effectively lasts about 48 hours, since
companies and other organization often time their joke press
releases to be sent out at specific local times.

The net-savvy stay on their toes for an additional couple days too,
because of propagation delays in some channels (such as mail digests).

Stan (who remembers being suspicious that a national figure like
Chernenko had even heard of Usenet, let alone sent it a note...)