The failure of campaigns to register the most obvious internet addresses led to an amusing interlude when Brooks Talley and Mark Pace, two Bay Area-based pranksters, began snapping up election-related domain names in mid-1995: dole96.org, clinton96.org, (Colin) powell96.org, and (Bill) gates96.org, among others. They launched zany hoax sites such as Dole96.org, which associated the candidate with the tropical fruit giant of the same name, describing him as “a sensitive, caring man (even kind of mushy like two-week-old bananas).”
Talley told the Knight-Ridder News Service’s Stephen Lynch that the sites got email from around 30 people a day: “Five who want to volunteer and don’t get it. Ten hate mails, and a bunch of people who think it’s really funny.” At least one campaign—that of California governor Pete Wilson—wrote to say it was not amused (“they were kind of nasty”).
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Talley told the Knight-Ridder News Service’s Stephen Lynch that the sites got email from around 30 people a day: “Five who want to volunteer and don’t get it. Ten hate mails, and a bunch of people who think it’s really funny.” At least one campaign—that of California governor Pete Wilson—wrote to say it was not amused (“they were kind of nasty”).
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