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标题：Fight of the Month
作者：Janelle Brown
期刊名称：Yahoo! Internet Life
印刷版ISSN：1088-0070
出版年度：2002
卷号：June 2002
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Fight of the Month

Janelle Brown

The Protagonist Philip J. Kaplan (aka Pud), proprietor of F---edCompany.com and author of the recently released F��d Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

The Antagonists The generally nasty posters on F---edCompany��s boards

The Charge Selling out, shameless self-marketing, and general suckiness

The Catalyst Kaplan, eager to plug his new book, asked his site��s users to buy it on Amazon. As he put it on F---edCompany: ��Maxim just reviewed it and gave it three out of five stars, so it doesn��t completely suck.��

Whoops! The site��s regulars, who have been groomed by Pud himself to spew bile at every dot-com gracing the site��s pages, aim their venom on their own beloved patron.

Choice Quote ��This book officially kicks off your 14th minute of fame.��

The Defense Pud has remained uncharacteristically silent, though a handful of his defenders have risen to the occasion.

The Moral If you��re gonna dish it out....