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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (6309)	7/25/2000 10:17:21 PM
From: TsioKawe	Respond to of 24256

Okay buddy..this is what I think is happening, to me you and a few hundred thousand other people. First I will tell you about a computerized system that was Installed at Foxwoods casino in connecticut. It is one of the worlds most capable computer systems designed to keep tabs on all the customers who ever entered the casino. It will keep track of all the habits, likes, dislikes etc. of every person using this facility, It was made so the foxwoods staff can cater to thier customers. also it assigns computerized gaming chips with a unique signature to each player. and that player is thusly tracked and stored in the memory system. I use power etrade, and believe they have a similar system built..only not to cater to there customers, but to cater to there market makers. If an order is placed from my account, the signature chip has been sent, giving along with it the information of my trading habits and what I will do in certain circumstances. The computer does all the work from there. so if it favors the Etyrade MMs then the order fills, if it favors me then the orders go unfilled, knowing quite well they will get the capital and no one else. Everything is computerized, the computer gets the advantage over you..knowing everything..and your money ends up in there pockets. The more I use the account the more I will end up loosing. It is the new wave medium for mass destruction of a once been peoples. So today my Faith in Electronic trading has come to pass and now I look back and see it so clearly. You probably know the same by now.Not all this technolgy will benefit society. The econy will get cooled down at any price , only good thing that has come out of it is that some martian made a killing giving this patent to an earthly like creature.

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (6309)	7/25/2000 11:08:22 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24256

VERT follow through........Goldman Sachs analyst Jamie Friedman said Galli's addition should be seen as bolstering VerticalNet management's strength. He noted that Hagan, the COO, moved into the background to let others run the company as it grew. "In the war for talent, this is a huge win," Friedman said. "Joe brings with him the ability to meet the structural challenges of managing a company with 600 plus employees and multiple lines of business." Friedman said Goldman will host a meeting on Friday with Walsh and Galli at New York's Harvard Club. Friedman placed VerticalNet on Goldman's recommended list last week, the firm's highest rating. Goldman has not performed underwriting for the company. Investors, at least, didn't immediately see the switch at the top of VerticalNet one day before it announced earnings as a negative. The stock was up 1 13/16, or 3 percent, to 58 9/16 in afternoon trading. Chatter about the impending resignation first emerged early in the morning, apparently based on a call that Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette analyst Jamie Kiggen gave to his firm's sales force. Kiggen was unavailable for comment, but a spokewoman at the firm did confirm that he "did go out with a call on that this morning regarding this issue." "That cushions the blow," said Dan Ries, e-commerce analyst at C.E. Unterberg Towbin, of the move to VerticalNet. It suggests that Galli had an economic incentive for leaving. It's far worse when an executive leaves for "personal reasons" -- which the Street has come to recognize as code for when a troubled company gives someone the boot. Ries rates Amazon a buy. His firm has done no underwriting for the company.