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To: ENOTS who wrote (10197)	7/20/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: Valery Portnov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21142

you are the third person who is inviting me to go to poplink. I guess when then go IPO every resident of this country (including illegal aliens)will be their shareholder. On a serious note - what do u think about this market? I know it's kind of unpopular to talk about overvaluations but I just can't help it since almost every quality tech stock is selling at 40-50-60+ P/E. CCUR is a special situation but to tell u the truth I felt much more comfortable when P/E was 11 or so just a year ago. Stay cool, Val p.s. should I buy SFA?

To: ENOTS who wrote (10197)	7/20/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: ENOTS	Respond to of 21142

copy of inquiry made to prasara, re when IVOD would be available in Va..... email address info@prasara.com VOD is being deployed in several cable systems this year. Deployment of VOD will continue to grow across all of the major cable companies resulting in approximately 10- 20 markets in 2000. These deployments are not trials they represent the foundation in each market for wide scale distribution. Regarding Virginia, it depends on which cable company is providing service to your market. enots

To: ENOTS who wrote (10197)	7/27/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: KS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21142

I got the PopularLink.com free stock offer in my email tonight. In doing some research, I ran across this article which I thought might be of interest. by Matthew Broersma, ZDNet It sounds like a plausible Internet-age moneymaking scheme: a Web startup giving away free stock as a promotional scheme. The user has nothing to lose, and -- who knows? -- the company could end up being the next Amazon.com. There's just one problem: the free-stock offer is illegal. The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently begun issuing warnings about the innocuous-sounding free-stock deals, which are promoted by e-mails sent from one friend to another. "A company called Tradehall (very similar to eBay, whose stock has skyrocketed) is giving away free stock as a promotional stunt. (The stock is not yet public.)" read one such e-mail. "They are trying to generate interest in their startup." The message then gives instructions on how to sign up for shares of stock. Tradehall says the promotional deal has signed up nearly one million members. A site called Popularlink.com is also promoting a stock giveaway. After a user signs up for stock, he is given a referral code; when another person signs up using that referral code, the first person typically gets additional stock. No-good stocks The SEC says the technique is out of bounds partly because such offers aren't regulated. "Generally you can't do offers like this," said SEC spokesman Duncan King. "There are a lot of issues around it, but one of them is that you're creating a market in unregistered securities." He said that even though the offers are just promotional tools, "if stock is involved, you can't do it." It would be difficult to think of a better giveaway than Internet stocks, which have achieved a reputation for making billionaires out of twentysomethings, after a persistent rise in shares of companies such as Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN). Riding the wave In fact, the e-mails promoting the stock giveaways name such stocks to attract additional interest. A message telling people to get free Popularlink.com stock -- which does not appear to have been sent by Popularlink -- stated that "the last company to try this route is now listed on the Nasdaq (Amazon)." However, Amazon.com flatly denied participating in any such scheme. "It's something we haven't done," said Amazon spokesman Bill Curry, who added that the company had never even contemplated a stock giveaway. The SEC's King said the Internet allows such too-good-to-be-true offers to find a much wider audience than they would otherwise. "It's making these things much more possible," King said. "As a medium, the Internet is a cheap, effective way to reach millions of people." He said that while the SEC does intend to enforce its regulations on free-stock cases, it has never prosecuted such a case in the Internet era. Popularlink and Tradehall could not be reached for comment. dailynews.yahoo.com