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To: stockman_scott who wrote (32023)	9/6/2000 5:50:34 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Hi Scott, view is fine. Hell, Biggs has been a Bear for the last 7 years. What a joke he is. He has even admitted to missing the greatest bull market in history. I am sure Abby could only smile. V

To: stockman_scott who wrote (32023)	9/6/2000 6:04:45 PM
From: Ex-INTCfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

Abby is right. "Dear Abby." The others lack vision. Still, in this day almost 3/4 of the way thru 2000, most of the people employed by banks and brokers don't have a clue. For God's sake, I worked in a bank until recently, and there was nothing anyone could say to them 5 years ago to convince them that the Internet was a great business opportunity. The only reason some of them seem to get it now is that they have been told to by upper management, who must have read it somewhere. It was obvious a few years ago that MSFT and Intel were going to be big winners. The landscape has changed a bit since then. There are more players in the technology arena. Tech is going higher, and will pull the markets up with it. What has changed is that it is more difficult to pick specific stocks than it used to be. But if we use our vision and pick the ones we believe will perform, we'll do alright. I mean, look at the state of things. Most people are connected via 56k modems. What is going to happen after broadband is in place will just blow people away! Just imagine listening/viewing a RNWK broadcast without having that stupid "network traffic, buffering" message come up. Think about what Microsoft will be able to do once people can access the latest upgrade features in browser-based applications without waiting forever to download files. Think about the storage we will need when downloading a movie is something done by people who have better things to do than look at an hourglass. Local warehouses holding Internet-ordered goods. TV on demand. Interactive TV. We are muddling toward efficiency . . . but we are muddling much faster than we did in the last hundred years. My Christmas shopping takes me less than 2 hours. Trips to Amazon, gap.com, etc. have taken care of that. I ordered two new phones from Amazon last week. Got a great price and a better selection than I have seen in any physical store. I listen to Bob Brinker on weekends in other cities over the Web via RNWK because my stupid local channel pre-empts him for the sporting-event-of-the-day. I sell 98%+ of my business services through the Internet. We are just beginning to ramp here. When you think of how it was just a few years ago when "snowball" (windows for workgroups) came out, and how bad everything was PC-wise up to that point, and you think where we are now and of the frustrations we still have about having our technology work the way we need it to, you can see both how quickly we are progressing and how much we need to do. The faster we go, the more frustrated we become, because we are so far behind where we want to be. I want to invest in the companies who will get us there. INTCfan