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To: cm who wrote (6308)	5/31/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Michael Young	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

<<And, FWIW, I guess Zack's rating is just some sort of conspiracy of investment bankers, etc. >> Investment bankers are motivated by investment banking fees. I'm sure you have noticed the flood of SPO announcements from internet companies recently. For instance, LCOS announced a 3 million share offering recently. I'm sure the investment bankers will all put out "buy" recommendations on the stock. But it probably won't help now that reality is hitting the sector. I will give SEEK management credit for getting their secondary done already. It was at a lower price, but it least it was successfully completed. I get the feeling the investment bankers and insiders won't be able to complete this current wave of offerings before investors start saying "no mas" to this group. MIKE

To: cm who wrote (6308)	6/1/1998 5:33:00 AM
From: FAISAL JILANI	Respond to of 9343

Possible take over target....possible candidates AT&T, buzz heard on the street. Anywhere between 40$ to 45$.

To: cm who wrote (6308)	6/1/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: Dennis R. Duke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

I do not see that "1" Zack's on Yahoo you mentioned: quote.yahoo.com What's up with that? Not a "1" in any of the broker recommendations. Dennis

To: cm who wrote (6308)	6/1/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Tom Klempay	Respond to of 9343

and purchase of WBS eyeballs... And what a great a purchase it is (IMO). I signed up at WBS and have been pretty impressed with it. Originally, I wasn't too impressed with the free home page service, but they've just given that an overhaul and it's improved 100%. They now give you 7 MB of free disk space (1 MB more than GeoCities, 2MB more than Tripod/Lycos) and have better web page templates for the html-phobic. For the techie (or techie-wannabe), you can create your home pages on your local machine using your favorite html editor (mine being Notepad <g>) and upload it to WBS pretty easily. Here's the one thing that bugs me: WBS is using Excite to drive some of its searching on the site. I'm sure that once the merger is complete or the Excite contract is over, WBS will switch over to using UltraSeek. It's a minor annoyance, but I'm not too surprised. This happens somewhat frequently when tech companies buy other tech companies (been there, done that). In fact, it will probably annoy the WBS developers more than anyone else as they'll be the ones doing the brunt of the rework. Good luck SEEKers... -tk