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To: Al Gutkin who wrote (4981)	3/4/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: fma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10227

Geeze Al, bitch all you want. This is SI. You don't offend anyone. You're a smart, well educated, well traveled, genuinely funny guy, and I'm not alone in thinking your posts are enjoyable to read, often thought provoking, and a real contribution to the thread. If I tell you your getting sour, tell me to go soak my head in a tub of malibu mud. The kind of good natured interaction you contribute here makes it easy to nondefensively assess the postulates that underpin one's investment and personal philosophy. Let me put it on the record (of course, my track record is that I'm the guy whose gut screamed we'd be at 30 yesterday), I'd miss if you weren't writing zaney posts and your sign-off, ROTFLMAO, read em aloud to my daughter and she does too. It won't enhance your standing one iota playing the straight guy, and although I wasn't included in your apology, I won't accept it. An admirer, FMA

To: Al Gutkin who wrote (4981)	3/4/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Arnie Doolittle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10227

Al, as long as you don't personally attack any poster on this board, apologies aren't necessary. You can attack the company all you like but beware that I will take you on if I disagree. :-) On the facts, of course. Which brings me to your complaint about NXTL's financials. Take off your accountant's glasses when you look at NXTL. Forget all that stuff that you learned in accounting classes. Why? It applies to history, not the future. If NXTL was a mature company, or even a teenage company, things would be different. Instead look at what NXTL owns (licenses, domestic and international), has built/is building: a true national footprint with mega-billion$ in value plus its international presence. The earnings potential of those assets is garganuan and that's what attracts me and other long term players. Arnie

To: Al Gutkin who wrote (4981)	3/4/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Bernie Diamond	Respond to of 10227

Al, no offense ever taken and no apology needed! We have different trading styles and different ways of valuing the true worth of a company. There is no "right" style or way to invest. If you make $$$$ by using ST strategies, that's great. I'm an intermediate to long term investor and will hold until the fundamentals tells me its time to move on to better risk/reward ventures. I don't mind the higher risk because I love the greater rewards, but I distinguish between risk and gambling. Ocassionally I will gamble a few thousand because of a gut feeling about a company and not because of its fundamentals. Nextel, to me, is money in the bank. I can't conceive of a set of circumstances that will have a serious negative impact for this company because it saves its customers money and gives them capabilities they did not have before (using one instrument). Anyway, your absolutely, positively correct about one thing your motorhome is bigger than mine but not Arnie's, because he is the king of the thread. <VBG> Bernie p.s., I cannot go back to work and upset this economy by causing an inflationary spike. p.p.s. I think the management of MOT and T stink.( I'm withholding judgement on the new T CEO).