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Pastimes : Discuss Go2Net's acquisition of our beloved SI -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lonnie who wrote (157)	4/25/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: SI Brad	Respond to of 446

> Also is the personal information that we gave to become a > member going to remain personal? I do not wish to see a > bombardment of advertising at my home because go2net is > selling our names to a mailing list!!! We state in our registration process that your information "will not be given to any outside organization." With the acquisition of SI, go2net acquires that promise. > Good luck. PS why didn't you go public yourselves, God knows > there are enough people here that would have supported you, > analysed the stock to death, shorted it, hyped it etc..(g) We decided it was considerably safer to join a top-notch management team and organization than to try to build one around us. There was a LOT of room for screwing it up, especially if we went the Venture Capital route. The end-point is actually very similar, but we pulled it off without substantial risk [in our minds] to SI. We also saved a very precious year or two in an environment where opportunity deteriorates quickly with the passage of time.