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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (84923)	11/22/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Lizzie, Harmon has never been too keen on either pcln or vert. Until icge, that was as close as he got to first-tier negativity, as I recall. No, this icge thing is news to me. What doesn't he like about the stock? Overvalued?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (84923)	11/22/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Online bookseller charged in intercepting e-mails BOSTON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Alibris, an online rare bookseller pleaded guilty to intercepting e-mails between its clients and online retail giant Amazon.com <AMZN.O>, the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston said on Monday. Alibris agreed to pay $250,000 to settle criminal claims by U.S. Attorney Donald Stern that it intercepted e-mail messages to its clients from Amazon.com. Alibris, of Emeryville, Calif., said it no longer offers clients email service, but its corporate predecessor, Interloc Inc, did. Stern's office contends that Interloc intercepted the messages between its customers and Amazon.com in part to gain commercial advantage by gathering information on its customers' purchases and obtaining market data. Alibris admits to the wrongdoing but said it gained no commercial advantage because it already knew what its customers were buying. Rather, according to President and Chief Executive Martin Manley, the company broke the law when it tried to rectify complaints from some clients who said they weren't receiving e-mail messages from Amazon.com. In tracking such messages to determine the problem, the company unlawfully captured the messages, although Manley said it did not read them. "The conclusions reached by the government in this, with respect to motive, are not necessarily ones we share," Manley told Reuters. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanne Kempthorne, who is prosecuting the case, said there is no evidence anyone suffered financial harm as a result of the conduct, which occurred in 1998 and involved nearly 4,000 electronic messages. But, she added, "I think the violation of privacy is a material harm." REUTERS Rtr 18:09 11-22-99