To: JWC who wrote (44184 ) 12/27/2000 10:15:35 PM From: ztect Respond to of 44908 Read like you were trying to fan the fires of a rumor by disseminating that "tip" or rumor openly on a public forum. Now would, should or could a call to IR confirm any such rumor? The simple and straight forward answer is a definitive NO. Until such material information is distributed to all shareholders simultaneously by the company, any info about a particular deal couldn't be confirmed for you individually. There are many ways that one could gather info not available to all shareholders...say for example one dated the secretary who typed up the agreement for Coca Cola and she told you what she did that day. Having the info isn't a crime per se, but using that info to trade is. Moreover sharing that info with anyone else who trades on that info is problematic too. Posting something you heard for "verification" again appeared to me as purposeful dissemination, and, in lieu of this thread's history, quite disingenuine. My suggestion is that if you hear any such further rumors, keep those "secrets" to yourself. Don't tell anyone else, and especially don't PUBLISH them as you, I and others in the past have done. When the company confirms those rumors with a PR then that will confirm the truth of those rumors. Moreover, if no such deals ever transpire, you will not have unnecessarily raised any expectations or false hopes. However, to suspect or surmise that another deal with Coca Cola may be possible in lieu of the 155,000 registrations for limited marketed deals, IMO isn't that too farfetched of a possibility and could be conjectured about without any correlation with any particular real or imagined forthcoming "deal". z