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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Keith Howells who wrote (9692)	7/18/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

Keith, If I may jump in here as this seems to be the question lately. What will it take to get more to follow GNET or more correctly why hasn't a big boy jumped in? IMO it has nothing to do with Russell or the GNET team. I don't think Russell has ever answered a PM to me when it wasn't two in the morning or something like that. So it has nothing to do with hard work or the business GNET does IMO. No CEO that I know of or company I know of has a cult following like Russell and GNET do. And it is not just Russell, John, Bryan, Brad, Jeff and Jill doing all the work it is people like Dino who you don't ever hear much about and others who all do their part. So a hard working team has nothing to do with it. You couldn't ask for a harder working team. I even stopped writing to Russell as I know the guy answers all his mail and I figure I'll be one less for him. A year or two ago I didn't feel guilty about writing to Russ or Dino, now I do. Why? Because as hard as they are working they will find....no...they will make the time to answer. So we have a profitable company, one with its "best days ahead of it", the company is going up Media Metrix like a rocket and yet no big boys why? Simple. Ego. Big Boy Ego. They don't like to be wrong and they have put customers into dog crap stocks that have done little for shareholders, they didn't put them in GNET. It is all ego. Look who took GNET public, it wasn't a big boy. Look at who did make the call on GNET. ING, BARING, FURMAN, SELZ, LLC also NEEDHAM and COMPANY and PACIFIC CREST SECURITIES, these are the people who were on top of GNET not your big boys. You don't see a Merrill in the crowd and that has to bother the big boys. They missed the boat, history never lies. Now if you were an analcyst for a Merrill type, how would you like to go to your boss and say "look we lost out on a few thousand percent and the biggest mover in the Nasdaq for the first half of the year but..............." Maybe Mark Haines should ask one of the big boys why they missed the boat on GNET? Mark likes to get to people it seems but not to the ones who could buy him lunch I've noticed. He is nasty at times to a CEO but real nice to the "experts", why is that? No my friends the only way to get this done is for us to do it. If you do business with Merrill then ask them why they haven't put you on such a hot internet stock that is a rocket on Media Metrix and is making money to boot. All it takes is one e-mail or one phone call. I noticed that my broker house is one of the few who owns GNET. Gee I wonder why? Think I've ever talked to a few people there, maybe the President of the company? I would ask that all GNET shareholders that do business with big boys to call and ask a few questions. And don't just talk to anyone, keep saying I want to talk to your boss until there are no bosses left. Then you are talking to the right people. A broker will blow you off, why?, because they don't want to hear about what they missed. Ask them about "the one that got away" and what it takes for a big boy to jump in. Write to CNBC and ask then why they never ask the "experts" why they missed GNET and why they don't follow it but follow dog crap internets instead. Is it just because they brought the dog crap to market and that is why they follow it? We shareholders brought GNET to where it is, not Paul Allen. Let's get the job done, write a letter, make a call, do your part. Many of the big boys seem to have never have heard of any internet company but AOL and YHOO. Let's change that by asking the big boys to look at some numbers. "Last one in is a rotten egg". 909S2ALL BLUE