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To: John Rieman who wrote (30826)	3/12/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

(non cube per say) "Finally, One of the prime rules for selecting a stock to short goes something like "avoid shorting companies that really aren't all that bad". As bad as I believe AOL is, long term, it probably turns out that AOL just isn't "all that bad". Don't get me wrong, the stock will pull back occasionally, even frequently, but it's probably more prudent to stand aside when a stock exhibits most of the characteristics enumerated above. Otherwise, as we have seen repeatedly, the shorts just become squeeze fodder for the market makers, actually improving the stock's overall upward momentum -- not what the shorts had in mind, at all... " techstocks.com I wonder if DVD will be as hot as the Internet in a year or two? more on AOHELL,... I mean AOL. "1. The company is in a brand-new, growing, though ill-defined business in which there is, as of yet, no established business model. 2. The company is unashamedly willing to undergo aggressive, coordinated, self-promotion. 3. The company is easy to tout to the institutional and retail investment communities.