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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (27935)	6/22/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 97611

>In the year that I've held this stock and been posting here, I have never seen this >thread so inactive. Is it because summer is upon us or is it that many are just plain >burned out and, perhaps, ready to throw in the towel on this oinker? On the CPQ as well as some other threads, I have noticed that the volume of postings is high when people with short-term trading interests, basically people trying to get others to buy/sell, are active. When the main people reading and posting to a thread are _investors_, people who buy a stock with the intention of holding onto to it for the long term, the volume of postings decreases. Speaking only for myself, I prefer the less hype, decreased volume of postings. Regarding your comment that CPQ is an "oinker," if you have held your shares for one year, at Friday's closing at 27 1/2, you are still in the money if you purchased your shares at anything less than 137 1/2. Given the way CPQ's price was performing when you purchased it, I can understand how you might be discouraged right now that the price is stagnating in the mid-high 20's. Hold on, El, this is not the first time this has happened to CPQ's price. Things will improve. I doubt if shares will go for $100./sh. by the end of the year as someone earlier mentioned some analyst had predicted, but by the end of 1999? Maybe, because when CPQ comes back into favor, it goes up, up, up. At $100, your original shares [pre last two splits] are worth $500/sh. Lynn

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (27935)	6/22/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: S.C. Barnard	Respond to of 97611

Don't worry, El- most of the people not underwater like us have gone to the Hamptons, to go swimming. <gg>

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (27935)	6/22/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

ELWOOD --- Am on vacation for two weeks ---first time I could get on a box at the public library . Did not realize I would miss it so much . CPQ sure has not done anything even though there has been a lot of news on the company . Until CPQ starts seeing profitabilty growinf\g in their core business I do not beleieve it going anywhere . BY the way I am in FLORIDA at a condo on the beach . IT is definitely hot with the temp in the 100 DEGRE area and all the haze from the fires . BEST WISHES BILL

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (27935)	6/22/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Windseye	Respond to of 97611

El, I'd love to chat about CPQ, except it seems we may have all run out of thinks to say "in the meantime"! But I do recall that last year, maybe in June, when they announced 5 new models with an aggressive posture re Fall and Xmas sales that this seemed to precipate some strong activity in the summer. I don't see that yet, of course, but maybe as we get hints of the effectiveness of the DEC purchase, and we really have a handle on BTO, CTO, and channel assembly , we'll see some solid gains... I wonder what "little" measures of success one can find in the new distributed sales model? Doug