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To: long-gone who wrote (263)	12/5/2001 2:00:27 AM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 377

Why are you such a naysayer about this fledgling item? You have had few if any positive comments to make and seem to go to extremes to be as negative as possible. We are mostly adults here and can recognize unwarranted hype. There is no direct investment to make and in any case one must perform their own D.D. Constant accusations of LIES, LIES, and more LIES in news reports doesn't qualify as D.D., it is no more than bashing, IMHO. A civil caution re the need to read between and behind the lines of anything of a PR nature should suffice. Frantic wailing in the vein of "The sky is falling" is a tad overboard, again IMHO. As far as "changing the world with something you describe as fun", try the automobile, coincidentally a transportation device that started out as "fun" and became a tool that "changed the world". Chas

To: long-gone who wrote (263)	12/5/2001 10:23:25 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 377

Hi long-gone Some other fun things: the personal computer - was developed for "fun" by engineers and hobbyists. That's a $trillion market 25 years later I'm guessing you're concerned about pump-and-dump, irrational exhuberance when the company goes public, and I'd agree w. that, it'll no doubt overshoot wildly. But, whaddya gonna do? People have to learn to evaluate based on reality. The craziness will pump lots more enthusiasm for VC investments, as bad as that can be, it's a "good thing" to generate new risk capital, imo. We'll see if the dot-com bubble has taught people some caution ... cheers