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Non-Tech : CORESTAFF (CSTF), now MMWW -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: limit who wrote (209)	12/1/1999 7:00:00 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 257

If you are going to hold on to your MMWW shares through the distribution of the XPDR shares, you should probably be prepared for MMWW to trade at a substantial short term discount due to general market uncertainty and the uncertainty associated with the IRS approval process. Needless to say, that discount will close as the distribution date approaches. Actual post-IPO spin offs in the Internet sector are a relatively new phenomenon and the only substantive post-IPO Internet spin off that comes to mind is MALL's spin off of UBID. UBID completed its IPO on December 9, 1998. MALL announced that they had gotten IRS approval in early May 1999, set the record date for the distribution of the UBID shares for May 24, 1999 and did the actual distribution on June 8, 1999. The MALL shareholders received .70488 shares of UBID for each MALL share. After the distribution, MALL initially traded at $8 per share. There was a significant uncertainty until IRS approval was obtained. It may be that future discounts will be less because investors will have the example of UBID/MALL. Closing Closing Closing UBID Price Closing Price Month Price Times Price MALL End UBID .70488 MALL less $8 Discount(1) 12/98 106 5/8 75.16 31 3/4 23 3/4 68.40% 1/99 81 1/2 57.45 35 13/16 27 13/16 51.59 2/99 72 3/8 51.02 32 5/8 24 5/8 51.73 3/99 62 1/4 43.88 30 1/8 22 1/8 49.42 4/99 56 39.47 34 5/8 26 5/8 32.54 5/99 33 9/16 23.66 30 1/4 22 1/4 5.96 (1) 1 minus (Adjusted closing price of MALL divided by value of UBID shares ultimately distributed to the MALL shareholders; i.e, for 12/98, 1 minus 23.75/75.16) I have not yet decided on my course of action yet. It all depends on what happens with MMWW prior to the XPDR IPO. I am, however, getting very enthusiastic about XPDR. Good luck. Regards, Glenn