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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Market Tracker who wrote (9985)	6/13/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: Lazlo Pierce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Market, here's the original PR from last week. It's ambiguous at best as to the short term changes that will occur w/ domain naming. ****************************** Friday June 5, 9:54 am Eastern Time U.S. releases revised Internet names plan WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The Clinton administration released its final plan to overhaul the Internet's naming system on Friday, but scrapped earlier plans to quickly add more names to the system. The eagerly awaited final plan, overseen by senior Clinton adviser Ira Magaziner, seeks to resolve the controversy over management of some of the Internet's most basic functions, including the assignment and registration of names for World Wide Web sites. The administration still plans to phase out government involvement in the naming system by Sept. 30, 2000, as an initial draft of the report released in January suggested. But specific proposals to extend the system or dictate how it should function in the future have been scaled back. Under the current system, Network Solutions, (NSOL - news) of Herndon, Va., manages the naming system in the Internet's popular generic domains ''.com'', ''.org'' and ''.net'' under an exclusive government contract that expires in September. The so-called top-level domains are the two- or three-letter suffixes at the end of every address on the Internet, as in the ''.gov'' at the end of ''www.whitehouse.gov''. Plans to create immediate competition to Network Solutions were dropped, but the government said it is continuing to negotiate with the company to assure a level playing field for potential future competitors. The plan leaves all decisions about expanding the system up to a new U.S.-based non-profit group headed by 15 people selected from private-sector, Internet and consumer groups. The debate over the Internet's name and address system has been raging for several years since one of the fathers of the Net, Jon Postel, announced his own plan to add more addresses. Postel's plan led to a cascade of revised plans, highlighting the sometimes murky and ambiguous system for making major changes to the vast network that arose informally from a Cold War-era Defense Department project.

To: Market Tracker who wrote (9985)	6/14/1998 3:51:00 AM
From: Bill Wexler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Stocks that get negative mentions in Barron's have this annoying habit of getting squeezed with astounding regularity. I've learned a long time ago to never short a stock immediately after a negative review in Barron's. I have a theory that a lot of amateurs rush in to short or buy puts on these stocks on the following Monday and they end up getting spanked. Even though the market is beginning to crack, I would still be real careful. Example, the Zitel short squeeze from the teens to 72 a share occurred after two very negative articles appeared in Barron's in 1996.