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To: Bazmataz who wrote (37154)	1/11/2000 11:57:00 AM
From: Annette	Respond to of 41369

""The common thread in all of my failed schemes is -- human stupidity. People are just too stupid to accept me as their leader... We are going to make everyone on earth smart. Smart enough to accept me as their leader... " -the Brain(aka the Chairman Case?)

To: Bazmataz who wrote (37154)	1/11/2000 12:02:00 PM
From: Guardian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

i sold yesterday 650 sh at loss. the classic mistake is riding aol downhill versus getting on when it starts back up. short memories of aol 1 yr ago dropping from 175+ to 87 before recent climb and split. money not working positively is money wasted imo. B2C is dead money; B2B is y2k growth. put your money there and profit. never fall in love with a stock

To: Bazmataz who wrote (37154)	1/11/2000 12:08:00 PM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 41369

How true... all committing classic mistakes. if you weren't happy with the merger, you would've sold yesterday... those selling today are panicking watching the stock go down and selling into the panic... the fear, the anguish - all emotions which force you into blundering... you may be right and you may have done the right thing by selling today - but if so, it was by luck and not by reason. most individuals selling on this thread seem to be doing so for panic and not much else... everything else is just rationalization... j1mho I couldn't agree more. I've been reading the last day's posts, and I'm dismayed at the knee-jerk investing styles that are displayed here. People start panicking and evaluating a megamerger based on the stock price (initial market reaction), comparisons with other failed mergers (with no mention of all of the successful large mergers)...making asinine statements like the stock will never see 70 again, Steve Case sold shareholders down the river, etc. What we have now potentially is ownership of the megamedia giant of this next decade. How will it play out for shareholders? I have no idea...but it sure seems worth holding for awhile and seeing what happens. The degeneration of this board and the comments of the past few days are the major factors that scare me about this market...lots of newbie investors who have been lucky enough to be in the greatest bull market in history and actually come away thinking that they know something. Reminds me of the old saying, "Don't confuse brains for a bull market." It would be nice to hear some negative comments based on something substantive rather than what we've been getting. This thread is starting to remind me of the Navarre thread, which had about a 20 to 1 fluff to substance ratio. I haven't been on this board for months, but what ever happenned to Vendit? Did he bail? JB