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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (60571)	10/16/2000 1:18:33 PM
From: Anthony@Pacific	Respond to of 122088

MERLIN<----------- SMASHED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Internet Stock Guru `Merlin' Loses Subscribers, NYT Says New York, Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The number of subscribers to a popular Internet investing site Trading-places.net, headed by a stock picker known as Merlin, has dropped to about 50 from 300, the New York Times reported, citing former employees. Merlin, whose real name is Chris Rea, used fictitious names, or ``ghosts'' in his chat room to cheerlead his recommendations, the paper said, citing former Trading-places moderators, Olivier Asser and Chris Curran. Asser claims Rea discussed terms with brokerage firms under which Rea would receive a fee for directing his subscribers to them -- a practice that would be illegal without disclosure to subscribers. Rea said the arrangements were never consummated. Rea claimed he hasn't traded any stocks since the Niles, Illinois-based Web site began operation, though the Times found court documents that show he bought 5,700 shares of Zapata Corporation, a Texas-based fish byproducts and internet venture capital company, after he founded his company. In addition, Rea persistently urged his followers to buy shares in RMI.net, a Denver-based Internet access provider, without ever disclosing that he had business dealings with an RMI.. subsidiary, AIS Network. Rea had plans to establish an auction site called realtimebids.com, whose infrastructure would be hosted by AIS. RMI.net bought AIS in December 1999 then issued 426,000 of its shares. In early February, Rea said RMI stock could rise from $7 to as high as $90 a share -- recommendations that helped push it above $12 for a couple of days. The stock then fell, though Rea continued to promote it in June, when it was trading at about $3. It closed Friday at $1.09. (NYT 10/15 3-1) (For the New York Times Web site, type NYTB <GO> ) --Stephen Voss in the New York newsroom (212) 318-2278 or at sev@bloomberg.net1 Story illustration: To chart RMI.net share prices over the past year, see: RMII <Equity> GPO D <GO>

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (60571)	10/16/2000 3:33:14 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 122088

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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (60571)	10/16/2000 4:48:33 PM
From: sommovigo	Respond to of 122088

I understood your sentiment, didn't mean to infer that you hated the gadgets themselves. But we're a gadget-loving society, almost as obsessed as Japan - that's why the enthusiasm in general, IMHO, behind the stocks. Fall in love with the gadget, buy the company - that seems to be the status quo for the ordinary investor. The next wave of wireless gadgetry may be the horns on the next bull run... no doubt each one a short candidate, as well. Thought I'd give you a head's up on the Docomo thingamabob.