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Congrats go out to Merlin from M3Server.com and his new wife who were recently married...we wish you many happy years together! Cheers!

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130,000th Post

ChristyB hit the 129,000th post and is the next one to get a chance at the monthly MaxCash drawing.

Anyone who posts on the VNWR main board and gets a pink number post for hitting the 1,000th number, will get their name tossed in the hat. A lucky winner from that group will be pulled at the first of each following month. Each month starts off fresh with no one in the hat.

What does the monthly drawing winner win?

Sweetnes can tell you since he won the drawing for February.

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Porns New King

Los Angeles (March 22, 2004) -
The son of notorious white-collar scamster John Peter Galanis has quietly resurfaced as the buyer of the nation's largest processor of payments for Internet porn.

Credit-card processor Intercept's (nasdaq: ICPT - news - people ) 2002 acquisition of Internet Billing, or iBill, may go down in history as one of the most boneheaded acquisitions ever by a public company. Now, it's finding it just as embarrassing to get rid of iBill.

IBill is the largest processor of credit-card payments for the purchase of dirty digital pictures (see "Visa's Porn Crackdown"). It is literally the engine of paid Internet porn. The company had successfully operated anonymously behind the scenes until 2002, when Intercept paid $104 million to acquire iBill from its founders. After first telling investors that porn made up just a minor amount of iBill's business, Intercept (which had $259 million in revenue for 2003) finally confessed that porn was actually responsible for 85% of iBill's annual credit-card transactions, which once amounted to as much as $720 million.

Having agreed last month to a settlement of $5.3 million for the various class-action lawsuits that resulted from the company's understatement of iBill's dependence on porn, Intercept also announced a deal to relieve itself of the business and sell the division that includes iBill for a lowball $37 million to a group that included management and outside investors (after dropping plans from October to take all of Intercept private). Then, on March 15, the company reversed course yet again and said it would sell iBill separately to yet another buyer, whom the company never disclosed.

Click here to read the rest of this article at Forbes.com

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