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To: Dixie7777 who wrote (2715)	5/9/1998 2:31:00 AM
From: Kevin G. O'Neill	Respond to of 8242

Dix, That's really a decent piece, well thought out and thought provoking; good find.ÿ If you get a chance, can you please post the byline or put a link up? ÿ Thanks in advance. Speaking of Double Click, I imagine we'll see a lot of interesting, synergistic advertisers getting involved here with Pro Net Link over the coming weeks and months, as the site's audience demographic is firmed up and packaged by GZ. ÿ (Interesting job opportunity for a talented and aggressive ad sales manager. BTW) ÿ Ads can obviously be tailored to a PNLK customer's sic code or better, and to their patterns of site usage (like amazon.co).ÿ I foresee early adopters getting preferential rates with early advertisers. ÿ It would be nice to sign a major credit card company; can anyone say, "C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-Eÿÿÿ C-A-R-D?" ÿ Perhaps the site's shipping info areas can be sponsored by DHL, etc. ÿ The list goes on and on, and much of this was discussed in the early days of the thread, I know. Within the advertising mission alone, there'll be plenty of opportunities for juicy press releases with major brand name participants. ÿ Should prove very interesting. Patiently Longer (added again today <VBG>) but growing weary of all the nonsense, I wish all the best, and have a great weekend! Kevin

To: Dixie7777 who wrote (2715)	5/9/1998 4:45:00 AM
From: ztect	Respond to of 8242

Dix- Just ran out of snow....or do I mean Glow..... INTERESTING READ.... What I found from my experience is not that there are or aren't legitimate Internet companies. My experience is that for the neophyte trying to ascertain which ones, someone should buy, he can and never will be able to base his evaluation of these Internet companies on P/E, a point on which we both agree. Plus furthermore, he can't easily distinguish the many shards of glass from the one or two diamonds which is another point on which we agree.. Now having been through Amazon.com site where I 've been clipping my "Recommended Reads" from, I have found their site very easy to use. What a simple interface...even an idiot such as myself can use it. I could see how I could run up my credit cards pretty easy except for one key word: Encryptology. I'm really not to keen on using my credit card over the Internet with keyed 128 bit SSE encryption. Someone intercepts the key...and presto they have your credit card number. Plus hacking into "protected" databases really isn't all that hard, and thus people shouldn't give anyone some false sense of security regarding password protected identities (have to throw a disclaimer in here to CMA-cover my a@@- I'm lying). So until there are more sophisticated encryption schemes, I'd suggest, and contradict the author of that article, and state that stocks like Amazon.com are getting way too ahead of themselves in terms of price. Therefore until encryption technologies catch up with search engines, other virtual book stores have time to develop their cyber stores..plus stores with traditional retailing may in the end be more profittable entities. Or, in other words, buy Barnes & Noble and Borders before they too get their online sites up and before encryption schemes come to market. Now with people purchasing encryption technologies...unless you understand what you're buying....DON'T. Sounds so simple, but is a basic principle of investing that most people largely ignore. If you want to get a sense of what I feel is legitimate technology and learn more about encryption go to. www.meganet.com like with Internet stocks....buyer beware...there are alot of bogus companies selling snake oil trying to take a shark bite (hint) out of your wallets. This company I had the opportunity to purchase via a private offering for .(20) cents a share (min $5,000. lots). I didn't buy at that time because I didn't understand the technology and never buy simply on FAITH. Now that I know better and have at least done enough "dd" to make an intelligent decision...I realize now that I may have made one costly mistake. Well, you live and you learn. So, contrary to what some may think about my methods and motivations...there is a lot of thought behind each and everyone of my actions and decisions. There truly is a method to my madness. I bought ProNetLink not on faith, but because it is providing an unique service with excellent partners in a sector with seemingly infinite growth opportunities. And that is also why in spite of any fluctuations in the day to day valuations, I am not letting go of anyone of my shares. Or, in other words, anyone shorting this stock may know a lot about market games, but they are truly morons. Plus calling them morons isn't derision, it is empirical. ztect

To: Dixie7777 who wrote (2715)	5/9/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: terri acey	Respond to of 8242

Great internet article Dix....I belong to an investment club and last Spring when it was in the teens I recommended Amazon because I liked the concept and they had a great summer promotion where you could sine in every day and contribute a paragraph to a story started by John Updike for 'wannabie writers' if they chose yr paragraph you won a thousand dollars. their grand prize was 100000.00. I thought what a great way to bring in potential book buyers etc...Needless to say my club was skeptical because it didn't follow the 'value line' approach. In the Fall I recommended XCIT because we couldn't afford Yahoo as it was just over 50 (our max amount for a stock) and after a long discussion we finally agreed and got it in the low 30's. As we can all see where both of these stocks are today...we went with our intuition for the future of the internet...I believe PNLK will far surpass my expectations...I also hold SEEK in my personal portfolio which I purchased in the single digits because I had a feeling that it would one day be a good investment and I also rode with it when it went below what I purchased it at. I think we will continue to see the ups and downs of PNLK while it is getting started but for the LONG TERM I feel it will be one of the best investments I ever made. I am going to print your post and show to my investment club at our next meeting. Thanks again.

To: Dixie7777 who wrote (2715)	5/9/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: R. Bond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8242

Dixie, It may also interest you to know that business-to-business use of the Net (currently at around $17 billion) is projected to grow to $400 billion by 2002, with volume doubling every three or four months. If the ProNetLink site takes part in some of that growth, it could become not only profitable but one of the most competitive places to do business in the world. Cheers, Bond P.S. I'm surprised that the analyst report left out a mention of Amazon's recent acquisition of 'global ' assets: 1.) Bookpages, one of the largest online bookstores in the U.K., providing access to all 1.2 million U.K. books, 2.) Telebook, No. 1 online bookstore in Germany with 400,000 German language books, and 3.) Internet Movie Database for film/TV fans. Total outlay: approx. 540,000 shares of AMZN. Yes, traditional 'value' approach clearly doesn't work with Net stocks at the moment. It's the Nineties!