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To: Alex Engelgardt who wrote (4926)	1/24/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

I already tried to short AMZN my brokerage did not have any shares:-( I couldn't get any FIBR either. Thanks, I'll look into LHSG...I was trying to round my folder before the weekend. I am only holding INTC and QCOM long now....I think zippergate is going to cause some market turmoil. There goes the tabacco deal....the worry WS now has is to much attention will be focused on the presidents probs. and not the foreign market crisis. Potentially severe effects from this. Jeff

To: Alex Engelgardt who wrote (4926)	1/26/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Alex Engelgardt	Respond to of 120523

Folks, Verisign (VRSN) is going to IPO. This one is better than CDNow as their margins are fairly high and everyone wants them. I guess I am sort of waving my hands here more than anything else as I don't have the pull with the underwriters to get any stock but if you have a large account with Dean Witter, you may get some. Verisign is the security part of much ballyhooed e-commerce. The good thing about Verisign is that it established itself as a leader in certificate signing from early on and managed to worm itself in as a de facto standard for many corporations. All major online retailers (such as amazon and cdnow) that accept credit cards for e-transactions have certificates signed by Verisign. Without going into a lot of technical detail, let me say this: the security risk of online transactions has been severely overstated (much like Y2K) and corporations will shell out any amount of money to achieve this "phantom" level of comfort. Furthermore, Verisign's certificates are cheap - we're talking on the order of hundreds of dollars, and their margins are obviously fat, since it doesn't take anything other than a server to generate the certificates and a bureaucracy to verify the identity of the client. Their price/security ratio has made them real popular among online brands and everyone else for that matter. They have plenty of competition - there are about 10 other companies out there who will sign certificates but none of them come even close to the branded identity of Verisign. See ipocentral.com for more info. Alex.