How might Revels’s third party status with respect to the agreement between the MAO and the MNCPO have been affected if the contracting parties had conducted their business online? Explain.

The Miss North Carolina Pageant Organization, Inc. (MNCPO), is a franchisee of the Miss America Organization (MAO). Under the “Miss America Organization Official Franchise Agreement,” the MNCPO conducts a public contest (the State Finals) to select Miss North Carolina and to prepare her for participation in the Miss America pageant (the National Finals).b In return, the MAO “accept[s] the winner of the State Finals . . . as a contestant in the National Finals.” On June 22, 2002, the MNCPO designated Rebekah Revels “Miss North Carolina 2002.” On July 19, the MAO received an anonymous e-mail (which was later determined to have been sent by Revels’s ex-boyfriend), implying that she had formerly cohabited with a “male non-relative” and that nude photos of her existed