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To: TLindt who wrote (13832)	2/17/2000 1:47:00 AM
From: axp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20297

Tom, I'm impressed you got your sale in at 124 - so close to the top. Half my traders went at 101 on the way up. As for your seven words, I'm not in synch with you. In fact I don't even understand what you're saying. Is it: 1) I'll do paperless when you (the biller) keep records as well as I do. 2) I'll do paperless when there's an easy way to archive it on my PC. FWIW, I've got a 7MB quicken file on my Mac with >12 years of financial records in it. When I get a piece of paper the relevant information goes into the quicken file and the paper gets recycled. My quicken file goes to Zip disk every two weeks. My Zip disk goes to the safe deposit box every 6 months. I've signed up for paperless statements (as much as possible) from Schwab, Vanguard, Countrywide. I'll do it for everyone that offers it. But do I trust someone else with that quicken file? NO WAY! Will I use Quicken if they make me upload this file to the net? NO! I expect that the companies who send me the statements can recreate the paper in the remote chance that's necessary. But not by archiving the paper or an electronic image of the paper - by maintaining the database that generated the paper. 6 months of accessible statements seems like plenty to me, but I don't think I'm typical. I keep my own records and spend a lot of time at it. My world's fine until the lawyers or the IRS come knocking. They want to see the paper - not the quicken file I can fudge while they're walking up the driveway!