On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Rob Strobbe wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:55:24 -0000, "Havaniess Dei"
> <wireflight@...> said:
>
>> The above quote was attributed to a Wikipedia source which no longer
>> includes the above text: either the text was removed from Wikipedia,
>> or it never appeared there. Please understand I have no confirmation
>> of the above text; therefore, I recommend it be regarded as suspect.
>
> The text is still in Google's index (do a search for "Dead Like me"
> and
> a few of the states that were listed) of the Wikipedia page, so it was
> in there at some point. Probably removed within the last few months
> since I imagine Wikipedia gets crawled pretty regularly.
>
> Though I still agree, the notion is a bit suspect. I've never heard
> of a
> DVD having a "limited release" -- anyone else know of any previous
> examples? Even if it were, those are some odd choices. More likely,
> they
> do it like theater releases -- start with the major metro cities, not
> seemingly random states. And we'd surely have heard by now if Showtime
> was considering picking the series back up.
>
> Also, the only mention(s) I can find of this plan are quotes of the
> Wiki article. Since Wikipedia articles are generally contributed to by
> Joe Schmoe after he gets his information from the internet, that seems
> a bit odd.
>
> Rob