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To: ahhaha who wrote (306)	11/17/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: Moose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 786

ahhaha, A snip from NPNT's website re: PacBell & NPNTs IDSL agreement (10/19): The agreement enables Pacific Bell Internet Services to immediately extend its high-speed offerings in California while SBC Communications' Project Pronto is deployed. I pulled this from a doc on the SBC website (re: Project Pronto ): ú Rearchitect its network to push fiber deeper into the neighborhoods it serves and accelerate the convergence of its voice and data backbone systems into a next-generation, packet-switched, designed-for-the-Internet network. Together with the advanced, long-haul network of Williams Communications Inc., with which SBC has a strategic alliance, SBC will be able to provide end-to-end advanced voice, data and video services on one of the most sophisticated, efficient, flexible and scalable networks in the industry. I don't know who to buy: WCG, NPNT, or SBC itself! IDSL operates at up to 144kbs for customers over 17k feet away from the CO. I'm in this group and would pounce at the opportunity to upgrade from my marginal 33-52kbs connection. Pronto is a $6 billion project focused on delivering convergence to 77 million homes. My question to you: Sell ATHM? SBC is dead serious... $6B worth of serious. -Moose

To: ahhaha who wrote (306)	11/18/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: gladman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 786

Do you EVER add any value to ANY stock you post on or is it merely your childish rock throwing? I see you finally woke up from your 8 hour nappy-nappy. You're pathetic. Please tell everyone how you've been trading since "before i was born"... funny how such a seasoned and successful lifetime trader such as you is reduced to chat room slinging. Get a life ahahaha hohohoho. Sorry mommy & daddy didn't give you enough attention when U was younger Grandpa. You've become my new idol. Expect to see me ALL OVER YOU AND YOUR SILLY DRIVEL. I'm going to sign off now but we'll be back together in the mornin... don't ferget to take out the dentures gramps. Cheers, Squirt

To: ahhaha who wrote (306)	11/19/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 786

Whatever you do, don't take the advice in #324 and get involved in options. If you sell an option against your stock, you limit what the stock will gain on the upside in exchange for poor protection on the downside. If you're going to take a risk and seek superior gains, take it, don't hedge. Otherwise, why bother? This is how it works. You sell a call against long NPNT and NPNT rises. You receive an exercise notice that tells you your stock has been taken and exchanged for cash. Now you're in cash and while you're fumbling to get the money back into NPNT as it runs away, you lose 5 points, buy at an intermediate top, and end up losing 10 points for 3 points protection had the stock fell. Even if it falls you sweat while the stock threatens to rise through strike. You are only relieved when the stock is dropping. You think it's a great victory because the call expired worthless and you made 3 bucks on it on the way to lose 5. Well, at least you didn't lose 8 for all that sweat. The stock rises back to where it was and so nothing materially changed but the accumulated stress took 2 more years out of your hide.