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To: MeDroogies who wrote (93078)	9/17/2001 12:31:55 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

You have no idea if MC has contacted people personally. You have no idea if he has quietly donated money. You have no idea what he is doing. And regardless of what you THINK he SHOULD be doing, I think it is fair to let people deal with this tragedy in any way they see fit. You seem to forget that this is a publicly held/traded company and that not only should I know what CPQ is doing but that I have the right to know and the right to be heard as a shareholder. What MC does in his private life and/or how he handles the tragedy personally is of no concern to me. CPQ is down 13% today because the company, leadership, and the merger are perceived by WS as lame and investors and traders are using today's sell-off to adjust and reposition their portfolios by buying the winners and culling out the weak sisters like CPQ. You are welcome to your memories of a Catholic training, religious parables, your wife's findings, and your own opinion but for one who thinks that we shouldn't be judgmental, you certainly have no problem finding fault. Is there a parable in the Bible that says people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones? El

To: MeDroogies who wrote (93078)	9/17/2001 1:41:23 PM
From: QuentR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

The losses of this stock have little to do with the New York/Washington tragedy. Compaq and the market were headed in this direction since Labor Day. We lost 2 points right away and then one more the next week, and probably would have lost another one last week anyway. For a lot of companies we are seeing where they would have been anyway. True a few companies like airlines are experiencing extraordinary losses in stock value. However, MC set Compaq in this direction and now if the deal is accepted the stock value is controlled by HP. The deal was not a good choice in a falling market. Wall Street seems to agree. I agree, how MC personally handles this tradegy is his own business.