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To: .com who wrote (70)	6/8/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Anthony@Pacific	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 595

KOOP only gets revenues from one place and one place only!!! advertiosing total; sales were none existant in this klast year an dlosses of 9 million.its a joke..this is a future penny stock ..just read tghe following and guess what not another peep for 30 days on this POS!.. Story 3 / 20: 99 <GO> for list of story options. Equity C N Page 1 / 7 BN Ex-Surgeon General Koop Becomes Internet Millionaire (Update1) Jun 8 1999 13:17 Ex-Surgeon General Koop Becomes Internet Millionaire (Update1) (Adds closing stock price.) Austin, Texas, June 8 (Bloomberg) -- C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general who led a fight against Big Tobacco and pushed for AIDS awareness, turned Internet millionaire today when his Web site company became publicly traded. Drkoop.com Inc., a consumer health-care Web site co-founded by Koop, more than doubled on its first day of trading to as high as 18 1/2. That made Koop's 11 percent stake worth $56 million. The stock closed at 16 7/16, up 7 7/16, as 26.5 million shares traded, the most of any U.S. stock. The Austin, Texas-based company's Web site, www.drkoop.com, offers free health-care articles, discussions and advice on issues from AIDS to skin care. It hopes to make money from advertisers, who now include SmithKline Beecham Plc, maker of quit-smoking products Nicorette gum and the NicoDerm patch. Kicking the habit is a subject dear to the 82-year-old Koop, a pediatric surgeon who is drkoop.com's chairman. During has tenure in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1989, KoopStory 3 / 20: 99 <GO> for list of story options. Equity C N Page 2 / 7 fought to recover from tobacco companies money spent by states to treat smoking-related diseases. ''We ought to use as many things as we can'' to keep young people from smoking, he said in a September interview after anti- tobacco legislation he championed failed in the Senate. Asked if he'd continue to fight against smoking, he said, ''You'll see me at the time when I can be useful and helpful.'' Now Koop, who sports a full beard minus the mustache and wears a bow tie, has agreed to allow drkoop.com to ''use his image, name and likeness'' over the next five years, the company said. In exchange, he'll receive royalties of 2 percent of sales. The Internet site, launched in July 1998, lost $9 million last year on revenue of $43,000. It had 83,000 registered users at the end of February.

To: .com who wrote (70)	6/9/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Anthony@Pacific	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 595

KOOP only gets revenues from one place and one place only!!! advertiosing total; sales were none existant in this klast year an dlosses of 9 million.its a joke..this is a future penny stock ..just read tghe following and guess what not another peep for 30 days on this POS!.. Story 3 / 20: 99 <GO> for list of story options. Equity C N Page 1 / 7 BN Ex-Surgeon General Koop Becomes Internet Millionaire (Update1) Jun 8 1999 13:17 Ex-Surgeon General Koop Becomes Internet Millionaire (Update1) (Adds closing stock price.) Austin, Texas, June 8 (Bloomberg) -- C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general who led a fight against Big Tobacco and pushed for AIDS awareness, turned Internet millionaire today when his Web site company became publicly traded. Drkoop.com Inc., a consumer health-care Web site co-founded by Koop, more than doubled on its first day of trading to as high as 18 1/2. That made Koop's 11 percent stake worth $56 million. The stock closed at 16 7/16, up 7 7/16, as 26.5 million shares traded, the most of any U.S. stock. The Austin, Texas-based company's Web site, www.drkoop.com, offers free health-care articles, discussions and advice on issues from AIDS to skin care. It hopes to make money from advertisers, who now include SmithKline Beecham Plc, maker of quit-smoking products Nicorette gum and the NicoDerm patch. Kicking the habit is a subject dear to the 82-year-old Koop, a pediatric surgeon who is drkoop.com's chairman. During has tenure in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1989, KoopStory 3 / 20: 99 <GO> for list of story options. Equity C N Page 2 / 7 fought to recover from tobacco companies money spent by states to treat smoking-related diseases. ''We ought to use as many things as we can'' to keep young people from smoking, he said in a September interview after anti- tobacco legislation he championed failed in the Senate. Asked if he'd continue to fight against smoking, he said, ''You'll see me at the time when I can be useful and helpful.'' Now Koop, who sports a full beard minus the mustache and wears a bow tie, has agreed to allow drkoop.com to ''use his image, name and likeness'' over the next five years, the company said. In exchange, he'll receive royalties of 2 percent of sales. The Internet site, launched in July 1998, lost $9 million last year on revenue of $43,000. It had 83,000 registered users at the end of February.