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To: mfamily who wrote (825)1/8/2000 8:35:00 PM
From: Neal davidson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8096
 
<<your holding period of the option carries over to the stock on the exercise; so the stock will be long term also>>

Are you sure about that? I have heard, on many occasions, that the holding period, for tax purposes, begins at the exercise of the option. This is critical to my decision; do you have a IRS reg you can refer me to?