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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (7606)	2/25/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: TheBigB	Respond to of 27307

Search Engine Hits in general are worth a lot less than hits on special interest sites and Yahoo knows this. The other search engines know this too. This is why Yahoo is trying so darned hard to open these sites like quote.yahoo.com and travel.yahoo.com and so on. However, there is a heck of lot of competition in these areas. A search engine Ad that is activated on key words is still useful. However a generic search engine ad is mostly at the same level of untargeted junk mail. Even worse actually since you can simply ignore it. I wonder how long it will be before advertisers figure out that an ad on yhoo that is not based on a key word and is not in a special interest section is next to worthless.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (7606)	2/25/1998 1:25:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

On the Friday before Sal made that post Yahoo closed at 64 3/4. That was seven days ago. What's your problem? Can't stand the heat on your little Prophet of Doom bear thread, and had to come back here and get personal to insult and annoy us? Do you have a profit yet on your Yahoo positions? Shall we dredge up a few gems of yours regarding @Home this week, and throw those in your face? Get real, Wexler. Stick to investing, not name-calling. When was the last time you were published on Microsoft Investor? How many money-management job offers have you gotten? How many Yahoo financial presentations have you attended? Who do you know in financial-management and technology industries? What's your performance been lately? You should be more careful who you take on.

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (7606)	2/25/1998 2:35:00 AM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Wexler, not only are you a loser, but you don't win any sympathy points because you're so childish--which is why few people like you (from what I've seen all around SI). How is @Home (ATHM) doing? Hahahaha!!!!! Short it, short more, and keep shorting more until it hurts, baby! Seriously, a little decline in Yahoo over the last few days means little to me since I did not buy it for a short term trade. Regardless, I originally got into YHOO in the low 20s....isn't that where you started shorting it? And don't give us that BS about selling puts along the way. You only started with that line recently. Oh, and don't blame it on bad luck. Bad luck would have been, for instance, if YHOO was bought-out at a huge premium right after you shorted it. You should blame your losses on being a stubborn, very stubborn, fool. It doesn't matter that you were wrong on Yahoo--everyone makes mistakes--but you stay wrong. You're just plain stupid to keep digging your heeling in further and adding to your short position as the stock goes higher and higher. If you wanted to keep your short position, fine, but continuously adding to it?!?!? Good grief. You keep saying "eventually" it will go lower. Yeah, and "eventually," you will die, too. I think a full year of YHOO going up (and not just "up," but it was the best performing stock in the market last year) has been far longer than you could have imagined. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.... Of all people, someone with your record shouldn't be talking.