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To: bythepark who wrote (1335)	3/18/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: jim geis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2443

Nobody is arguing that they don't make good and even great products. That's why I became a shareholder. If the management was half as good as the engineers, we would be in great shape.The engineers pay attention when thing go wrong and fix the problem. Management isn't aware there is a problem. I want this company to do well as I've been a shareholder for awhile now, but I'm having serious doubts about management's ability to step and handle the task. It's going to be an interesting annual meeting

To: bythepark who wrote (1335)	3/18/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2443

Excellent heads-up alan. We love this company for the same reason... The same concerns we have, however, still exist, viz a viz management depth (and confirmed by Aanderud himself 3/97). It has and is already [clearly] taking its toll on shareholder value, a failed secondary, and alarmingly inconsistent marketing...The Peter Principle from marketing to the CEO?...the Usenet is the Internet and is a superior vehicle for [free] and formidably powerful word-of-mouth advertising...as powerful as it gets, but management has nothing to do with this phenomenon...their website confirms their take on the Internet...the product can take sole credit for what is occuring on Usenet...and what exacerbate's all this is seeing things like Dale Earnhardt being interviewed by CBS during the 50th anniversary of *///NASCAR* and zeroes in on training with Sierra's /// NASCAR Racing 2 with no mention of TMSRs ///NASCAR Pro...yet has the surgically precise ability to reprice their options without shareholder approval solely pursuant to their temporary glandular perception that Microsoft had temporarily depressed the price of their stock (ref/ Fiscal 1996 SEC FORM DEF/14A)...We think about that as we read Usenet and will until management provides sufficient evidence otherwise including acknowledging simple routine shareholder requests...