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To: Rande Is who wrote (32706)	8/23/2000 2:25:03 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Respond to of 57584

Thanks Rande, Looking forward to this very, very much. I will throw a few casts for you. If I catch one on your cast you will receive the picture. You have to be about the most even and calm poster on SI. You continually surprise me with your open style and even temper. Thanks, Bill

To: Rande Is who wrote (32706)	8/23/2000 3:02:49 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Respond to of 57584

Rande, Are you vacationing in NEW YORK???? biz.yahoo.com Wednesday August 23, 2:52 pm Eastern Time The newest in CEO attire: bathrobe and slippers By Greg Cresci NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters) - It's not every day that a chief executive promotes his company in a bathrobe and slippers. But that's exactly what Clifford Boro of Web company Internet Financial Network was wearing at a marketing display on a busy Manhattan street on Wednesday. ``It wasn't my idea, I was resisting. But it's all in the nature of fun,'' said Boro, clad in a navy blue bathrobe and matching slippers. ``I'd like to think that the idea behind it is that from the moment you wake up in the morning in your slippers to when you go to bed, Infogate is watching information that you care about.'' Infogate is a new service run by Internet Financial Network that delivers business news, stock quotes and corporate data via a small frame on the user's computer screen. Launched this spring with the help of $30 million from investors including Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C - news) and The Trump Group, Infogate software allows people to keep track of their stock portfolio in real time without having to troll the Web. ``Today's goal is to get people to download the software and to increase our visibility with potential sponsors,'' Boro said. The executive, sitting in a display window at a movie theatre on Broadway and 68th Street -- not far from Lincoln Centre -- took questions about publicly traded companies from passersby and used Infogate to retrieve the answers. People inquired about companies' stock symbols, revenues, trading volume and customer base. Boro, speaking via a microphone hookup, provided most of the answers within a minute. The New York-based company plans to make Infogate profitable by receiving payments from sponsors that want to offer their customers unique information and by selling advertising space, Boro said. While the business is new and relatively untested, Boro says the company still has over $20 million to spend and is not under pressure to be profitable any time soon. And the bathrobe strategy? ``If it gets us downloads and attention, (our investors) will love it,'' Boro said. ``It's completely embarrassing, but only for a few minutes and then it wears off.''