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To: Paul Kern who wrote (85)	2/20/2001 9:36:09 PM
From: Brasco One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 505

paul, i meet a lot of idiots from westlake down here from the netzero team that were drawing 15 million dollar houses from my aia buddies. now the concept was just a dream. they were almost there and the ones that exited in the 20s and 30s are sitting in their houses happy laughing at the goldman/hype victims. now that puppet at mer is doing the same thing here. unloading like the insiders. we need to make sure what people are paying for the insiders here. 20 million dollar houses, 10 million dollat yaughts, 5 million dollars for cars, and maybe a basketball team for our "genius" ceo. LOL!! please dont let this guy pump the stockhere. we know if he looking for the exit sign... pos homs.. lOL! good luck all

To: Paul Kern who wrote (85)	2/20/2001 10:44:05 PM
From: Ray Rueb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 505

You're asking me to comment on something that I know nothing about. I looked at the list of "insider" sales that you provided. The sales that are listed, I would call sales, not dumping. The largest single person was, I think the CEO, selling 90,000 shares. This is a guy who owns 2.7 Million shares. That is not dumping. Look at the top numbers... I don't know too much about this stuff, but isn't total outstanding minus the float equal to the "insider"'s holdings? If so then the total recently sold is less than 4% of the insider holdings. Again, I say selling, not dumping. From an employee's perspective look at the fantasy and despair and reality of the following made up scenario: Feb 1999: join a pre-IPO Dot-Com in the midst of market craziness. Receive 20,000 options with strike at $1.20 or $2.00. August 1999: Goes IPO at $20, but you're in lock up and can't sell. Net worth currently $400,000. January 2000: Stock hits $130, you're still in lock up. Net worth now $2,600,000. Feb 2000: Company grants 10,000 more options at $71 strike price. April 2000: Stock hits $15, lockup finally over (it was April 2000, wasn't it?) Net worth now $300,000. February 2001: More options, this time at $30. Net worth now at $600,000. Hmmmmm. Haven't sold original options. Total net worth tied up in HOMS options. Market for every other dot-com is tanking. Wife wants to get nice house, car, etc. Haven't had a vacation in 3 years.... If you sell 10,000 original options and use the proceeds to diversify, that'll take the pressure off you. You can still ride the gains on the $30 options and not miss out on future rises. Is this a dump or a prudent sell? You all be careful out there Ray