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To: re3 who wrote (79960)	10/7/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

Ike, would I buy Wal-Mart with new $money? Your asking a guy that has a bundle in Pmc because it pays 12% interest?? Can you see Mark F or William H owning Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart is for the investor that likes to see his/her investments grow slowly, not double every day. The weak at heart like me love it.;-) Ps I bought some more last spring. >> "Kids today are different," theorizes AllowanceNet.com, the latest Web site to try to make spending online a sheltered experience for the underaged set. Despite gaining congressional protection against the assorted surveys and registration forms littering the online landscape, children evidently still need protection from moustache twirlers determined to plunder their data and dollars without regard for youth, innocence, or fiscal solvency. AllowanceNet, which spices up its online experience with a dancing stick figure icon that just shouts "1996," is one of several companies responding to horror stories about 14-year-olds buying entire households full of stuff on eBay without realizing they'd actually have to pay real dollars for it. With the advent of cybermalls like DoughNet.com, RocketCash.com, and iCanBuy.com, mom and dad can now belt down an extra Rob Roy or two without worrying that junior will mortgage the house online to finance his relentless pursuit of Spawn action figures. Of course, children still have to enter an obscene amount of personal and financial information before they're protected from the rest of the Web. But no system is perfect. Aside from wheels-within-wheels data collection, there's one other catch: The sites are so relentlessly earnest and obviously unhip, no self-respecting kid would be caught shopping at any of them.<<