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To: Paul Hofmann who wrote (27072)	2/5/1998 10:13:00 AM
From: Bill Hyres	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

WELL said Paul. I had the same reaction to his recent posts. The proper and eloquent post you make says it all. This person seems very egotistical and seems to have a personal agenda of questionable nature. Bill

To: Paul Hofmann who wrote (27072)	2/5/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: rd greer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Paul, I gained a fascinating bit of knowledge as a result of one of my youngest daughter's Christmas gifts this year. She was presented the latest in fads -- a Nano Baby! You know, those irritating little computer thing-a-ma-jigs electronic toy manufacturers' marketers made all the younger children have to have? While at her grandmother's, our daughter and her "baby" slept in the next room. My wife, an irritatingly light sleeper, kept hearing it wake up and demand attention in the wee hours of the morning. That, of course required? waking me up to complain about the "beeping" noise and the question, "...how do you turn it off?" (She didn't care for my response, but I claim I'm not responsible for my thoughts at 0-dark thirty in the morning.) The Nano Baby has no redeeming social value, and imparts no useful information as best I can determine (since pushing one of three buttons is in no way similar to the care, feeding, cleaning, and nurturing of baby humans), yet it routinely makes noise as it demands the electronic version of attention -- sleeping, feeding, playing, medical attention, etc. Much to our delight, we found that, when "it" was laid aside by my daughter for several days during the excitement and hub-ub of Holiday festivities, if you ignored it, it died! Unfortunately, my daughter's attention returned to the "thing" during the drive home and, much to our chagrin, resurrected it. Once arriving back home and, with school, homework, playing with friends, piano and dance lessons, her attention waned once more, as it often does with young children, and the "thing" died again! Last evening my daughter found it in her desk drawer and, once again, resurrected it. I am now attending the electronic irritant while she is at school, but she turned the noise off before she left, and if it dies before she gets home, she'll be upset. But I'll conveniently say I thought it was asleep! Haven't yet determined to a scientific degree how long it lives without attention, but it's noise grows in frequency and duration until, finally exhausted, it dies and leaves my daughter's family in peace. My unscientific survey reveals about 10 cries for attention with every one response given. There must be a lesson in here, somewhere. rd

To: Paul Hofmann who wrote (27072)	2/5/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: VALUESPEC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

Paul, thanks for your tactful words, in spite of our differences of opinion. I'll try to answer some of your questions: 1) I said I would probably not write (I believe) for the next few days as I was planning on taking a couple-day trip. This trip has been delayed for numberous reasons, the most recent being the weather and the strong stock market. 2) I am here because I took the time to look at this company and didn't like it. After I was almost lynched on this thread after my early posts, I decided to stick around and prove my point as both a hobby and as a learning experience for myself. This will be a case study of which I will post when it is over (6 to 12 months?). I am also here for many other reasons, some of which are: to help better inform others; add to my Stock Libraries; possibly find a good trading opportunity or even an investment opportunity, if in FTEL actually gets large sales (unlikely, IMO, but who knows?); and to just participate in general stock discussion. Paul, I don't feel you are being fair in singling out my posts. What about Raleigh's WAY off predictions? Who posts about them but Sousa and I? Why haven't you chastised him for being so unrealistic, IMO? What about the quality of reseach on this thread by many of the leaders? Who has called WCOM or ATT or used SEC documents to argue their points? Who cares what the used car saleman and the used car lot owner say about the car? I chastised this group because you are acting like greedy children. Many like Doug and Vic are even outright lying about me ever owning, or saying I own, FTEL. Why haven't you rebuked them? Anyway, no matter what you think of me or my intentions, or even the quality of my information, we will all see IF FTEL DOES PERFORM sometime in the future with a "storm" of revenues. In the meantime, we'll I'll just wait and we'll see who was right. I'm almost always right about the losers, but who knows, maybe it will be different this time (QZARF, MTCI, HOPR, PELT, RACE, etc.). The volume has been high the last few days. Does anyone wonder why? Is the bubble popping? Should it have gone this low if you are right? Why was the company so predictable with its "weak" press release? FTEL: $ 4.38b $ 4.50a VALUESPEC "waiting for the future to vindicate my words" valuespec.com