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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (5138)	2/16/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: Jimmy Dell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

I received this yesterday, forwarded from a friend. Is this for real or a prank? > > FROM: GatesBeta@microsoft.com > > ATTACH: Tracklog@microsoft.com/Track883432/~TraceActive/On. html > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > And thank you for signing up for my Beta Email Tracking Application or > > (BETA) for short. My name is Bill Gates. Here at Microsoft we have > > just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to whom this > > message is forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP (Internet Protocol) > > address log bookdatabase. > > > > We are experimenting with this and need your help. Forward this > > to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone > > on the list you will receive $1000 and a copy of Windows98 at my > > expense. > > > > Enjoy. > > > > Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be notified by email > > with further instructions once this email has reached 1000 people. Windows98 > > will not be shipped unitl it has been released to the general public. > > > > Your friend, > > Bill Gates & The Microsoft Development Team. > >

To: yard_man who wrote (5138)	2/17/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 74651

Sent you a message regarding the status of those puts (which, for the rest of you here and any lurkers, lost 50% of their value before I bailed out). Time is running out on the feb 155's, but if Microsoft is still sitting around 157 late tuesday and the puts are down to $1/2 I suppose... It could be fun to play one more time...watch the one minute charts, save myself the effort of a trip to Vegas. Unfortunately, whilst sitting in front of my 486, there will be no free drinks, I cannot go downstairs to the buffet, and there are certainly no dancing girls. So, with none of the perks, maybe the puts are too expensive? ...on the other hand, wife won't drag me off to see Seigfried and Roy. Hmmm. That's it, I've talked myself into it. After the latest round of MF money slops in tommorrow, count me in!