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To: Bruce Cullen who wrote (6209)	8/20/1999 1:06:00 AM
From: Mike Fredericks	Respond to of 13157

Another negative slanted post, if you are short I suggest you get out of (IATV)asap, Am not short, have never been short, think this is a foolish stock to short given that it could double overnight if they announced a rollout date. My posts come across as "negative" only in contrast to the posts here... for example, Trent Lott looks really darn liberal compared to Jesse Helms. Overall I'm positive on the company. If I were negative, I wouldn't waste my time posting here. I have spent time posting on exactly one thread where I was so negative the stock that I felt duty-bound to warn people away, and that was a stock called ISGI, which was a $1.00-ish Long Distance company that kept getting sued for slamming and fraud and the stock went into a freefall so they did a 1:15 reverse split and changed the company name. Stock kept falling then also, and a person who claimed to be an employee who was buying stock right and left suddenly disappeared, leaving a bunch of "rah rah" types promoting the stock as it was falling into oblivion. It is now de-listed. That was the only time I have bad-mouthed a stock and tried to warn people away, and after I lost a healthy chunk of coin, I felt obligated to keep people away from it. That is not the case with IATV. I'm long, I went long (most recently) at 14, but the fact that I'm long doesn't mean I'm blind to the flaws in the company. All the flaws are easily fixable though... -Mike

To: Bruce Cullen who wrote (6209)	8/20/1999 1:14:00 AM
From: Mike Fredericks	Respond to of 13157

I usually refrain from commenting on arguments but you just are really holding this board to negative and slanderous non verified and proven research. Please do your homework and stop the cry baby routine! Bruce- Slander is a crime. I have not slandered anyone here. If you dig back through my posts (it's 1am here so I'm a bit lazy to do it myself), you'll see a post where I provide beaucoup links to FreeEdgar filings, in each of which ACTV, Inc. stated their target date for release of the Fox Sports product. The first one was a mid-1996 filing that said the rollout date would be Q496-Q197. These were all estimates, of course, but every couple of quarters they would update their prediction, and always expect release approx 2 quarters in the future. The most recent officially published prediction was in the Q199 SEC filing which stated an expected release of Q399. Allegedly Samuels pushed that out to Q499 in a recent interview, but I didn't read/hear the interview. No mention of rollout date was made in the Q299 SEC filing. My other beef is with the SAR plan - read the SEC filings yourself and see how much of a charge they took on earnings the past two quarters. Please don't tell me to "do my homework," when I read every IATV press release and every IATV SEC filing (and every post on this thread). My homework is what led me to my opinions. And don't accuse me of Criminal activity when I have committed no crime. When I (like you) come onto a thread using my real name and real e-mail and have even posted my personal webpage so people could verify who I am, my real reputation is on the line, and I don't take criminal accusations lightly. Note in my post earlier today on the SAR plan, I also give BS et al credit for retroactively exercising their options at 3+ instead of the 11+ that they were entitled to. That saved the company millions. However, his stock sale immediately following didn't help the stock any, IMO. -Mike