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To: Peter Speyer who wrote (471)	2/14/2000 8:55:00 AM
From: John Finley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 706

I've got a question for someone less accounting-challenged than I. If one were to stuff a channel, wouldn't it come out in the wash a Q or two down the road? It reminds me of an un-named company that I used to work for that would "borrow" into next month's "continuing" sales to hit this month's targets. It seems to me, a lowly techie, that you'll just reach a time-shifted steady state, that gains you nothing over the long haul. True, if you can pull off a pyramid-type scheme until you get bought, it would work. But it seems to me that maintaining that over the course of years would be dang-near impossible. Hmmm..... makes me wonder about the current state of the tech market.... <gg> JF