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To: Zebra 365 who wrote (4012)	1/16/2000 9:57:00 PM
From: Blackmarlin	Respond to of 15615

I am concerned about any shares I own being used to counter the long-term position I have taken in a company. It's akin to voting, I don't have a big bag of influence in terms of votes or power... but I do own what I paid for, and do not want anyone using my limited resources against myself. I guess you could call it a matter of principal. Imagine of most individual investors instructed their brokerages to not loan their shares to short sellers. <<Don't worry about your shares contributing to "the shorters", unless you hold over five million shares, in which case you would not be asking this question.>> Also... are IRA's invested in mutual funds protected from loans to shorts?

To: Zebra 365 who wrote (4012)	1/17/2000 8:37:00 AM
From: Bryce Elkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Zebra - My Prudential broker told me that I could purchase real estate within my IRA Account; I just had to pay for it entirely from within the IRA. Then any income would be inside the IRA and thus tax advantaged. Ble

To: Zebra 365 who wrote (4012)	1/17/2000 11:33:00 AM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Respond to of 15615

GBLX goes VPN! biz.yahoo.com I'm just curious as to whose Virtual Private Networking equipment GBLX is using. I suspect LU because of their past relationships. LU does offer a full suite of VPN products. If it is Licent (Ascend division) supplying the VPN stuff, then we should all take a second look at HIFN, which makes the dual encryption/compression chips for the VPN market. DocStone