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To: Baldwin who wrote (1109)	6/25/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Shafik Habal	Respond to of 1434

RUMOR ONLY ALERT....hearing mspg as good as gone north of 100 ....BLS buyer....be extremely careful, although everyone on this thread likes this company, who knows if this is Dorfman material or the real deal...the stock is already up significantly last few days.

To: Baldwin who wrote (1109)	6/25/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: brk	Respond to of 1434

Not for the business to business e-commerce, but for mainstream America to jump on, yeah. Broadband is too expensive right now (I pay $70 a month for a 384k DSL line and ISP) and even though the net is a great resource, most of the people I know still don't take the time out of their day to use it. Keep in mind that the vast majority of the population has still rarely, if ever, been on line. Technology moves swiftly, but widespread social acceptance of technology doesn't.

To: Baldwin who wrote (1109)	6/25/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: brk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1434

In 1998 World Online Population >>> 171.2 Mill (3%) North American Population Online >>> 94.1 Mill (55%) World Population Not Online >>> 5.7 Billion (97%) Online Population Projection for year 2005 North America >>> 150 Millions Asia Pacific >>> 100 Millions Europe >>> 80 Millions South America >>> 10 Millions Middle East >>> 4 Millions Africa >>> 5 Millions World E-Commerce: 1998(actual) / 2003(projected) USA >> $28.9 Billions / $654.3 Billions Europe >> $5.4 Billions / $358.0 Billions Asia Pacific >> $2.2 Billions / $88.0 Billions Canada >> $0.8 Billion / $53.9 Billions Latin America > $0.2 Billion / $84.2 Billions Collected from various reliable sources like emarketer, US Census Bureau (1998) and Computer Economics. From above figures it is clearly evident that the real internet explosion is still to come. OK, let's say 5-10 years ;-)