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To: techtonicbull who wrote (38772)	12/8/2000 5:00:56 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

The problem with responding to one rumor is then you have to respond to them all, or else your non-response might be taken as affirmation. That's why rumors are so nasty. I think the best they could do is to make some affirmative statements about how things are going, while (if it comes up) explicitly stating that their policy is not to respond to rumors, so that nothing they say should be construed as a response to this particular rumor. A little hokey perhaps, but it might work, especially if it were as part of something that's already regularly scheduled or expected (e.g. a strategy announcement on Cobalt -- they could then discuss their strategy and position in low end servers, competition from Intel, and even strength of the balance sheet and their conservative accounting practices quite naturally). All JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)