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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (96105)	3/12/2000 11:17:00 AM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Ok, an update of Janus' Amzn ownership: Per 13G filed on 3/10/00, Janus owns 37,010,552 Amzn shares. Per 13G filed on 2/15/00, Janus owns 30,975,924 Amzn shares. Janus purchased an additional 6M Amzn shares during the past three weeks? Can you verify? According to insidertrader.com, Janus had 27.4M Amzn shares as of 12/31/99.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (96105)	3/12/2000 11:46:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 164684

I believe I am going to apply for a Patent. My web site has a location where people may guess (possibly research prior) the answers to six questions and if they answer all six questions correctly, they receive a $20 gift certificate. I have received offers via email from other e-commerce site where I can receive 25% off on a purchase of $40 or more, or free shipping or a certificate to use to discount my purchase. Not once have I received an email that suggests a contest like the one on my site. I know in the non virtual retailing world there have been lots of giveaways by having possible customers come into the store and enter a contest with no obligation to buy. The idea was that possible the erntering participant might buy something while they were ther. On the net, it is different. I mean the participant has to come to my web site and there is a chance they may buy something while they guess their answers. They can guess again every twenty four hours. I believe this is new and inovative. No other e-commerce site should be permitted to use this idea and technolgy that I spent hundreds of man hours developing. Bezos is the man. He knows when he has a novel idea. The use of cookies now that is novel. I keep my customers from playing more than once every twenty fours hours with the use of cookies. I wonder which patent I am violating? I bet Amazon has one LOL. What a bunch of crap Bezos and that firm is and this open letter to make it look like they are concerned is about as much BS as I can take. Bezos is importent enough to change the Patent system. Yeah right! In my opinion, he is a fruitcake that should Patent the amount of money a firm can lose in just a few years.