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To: Blue Voodoo who wrote (190)	6/10/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Pluvia	Respond to of 595

Looks like KOOP is taking a @OOP... Maybe people started reading the financial statemnets and realized any nimrod could set up a frigg'n website and offer health information. It aint hard to lose money.

To: Blue Voodoo who wrote (190)	6/10/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 595

>>>When Yahoo went through the roof, smart folks bought other portals, like excite & lycos. With Koop crazy up, I'm buying BGIX. Unreal. Compare BGIX to KOOP - same business model, same info provided, comparable number of pages, hits, etc.,. But the market cap of KOOP is like 20 times as big as BGIX. My guess is that some deep pocket will soon buy out BGIX entirely and spend a few mill on ads to give BGIX's health channel the necessary brand recognition to compete fully.<<< I don't know beans about BGIX. But I do recall Goldman and Sach's Doubleclick (DCLK) IPO vs. Zulu-tek's (ZULU) OTC-try-to-get-onto-Nasdaq strategy. I mistakenly thought ZULU would ultimately hold the edge because it claimed it could produce television quality commercials over the Web against DCLK's banner ad sales. DCLK soared into 180; ZULU tanked, post-reverse split to .25. I lost eight grand--one of my biggest mistakes ever in life! And I won't make that mistake again. Encourage others to be careful here also.