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

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (11607)	7/16/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Roger, speaking of Y2k, this morning's WSJ had a piece about how many Japanese banks and retailers switched over to a new year-numbering "era" after Emperor Hirohito died, using the occasion as an opportunity to update their computers for four digit years. This according to a Merrill Lynch report. If this is correct, it's no wonder they aren't spending as much as US companies on the problem. Now, if we can just survive that Nasdaq 2000 ("N2K"?) problem... Bob

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (11607)	7/16/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

The buy programs are mostly configured to buy YHOO, AMZN, DELL, and MSFT. Thus these stocks may go over $1000 per share tomorrow, maybe even to $2000. Roger, stop spreading false and misleading information. Shame on you. You know that NASDAQ's "2000" problem was fixed months ago by FBN Associates. I give you my personal guarantee that there's absolutely no truth to the rumor that FBN might have programmed a "back door" into NASDAQ's trading system that works with MSFT's Active Server Pages and VB Script. Any temporary spikes in any of the high volume NASDAQ stocks accompanied by a quick turnover in options would be strictly coincidental. Next time I suggest you visit the FBN thread here on SI before you post something like that again: Subject 21523 - Jeff P.S. Edit: I see you were just over on the FBN thread. Never mind!

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (11607)	7/16/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 18691

Roger, I'd like to report that just before I left for my vacation, I received my new Mastercard with an expiration date of 00. I gave it quite a workout while at the beach, and can't report a glitch yet. Today I received a check for $50 from TALK. There is a correspondent story in TheStreet.com: thestreet.com The CEO says "But Daniel Borislow, Tel-Save's volatile chairman, disagrees. 'I want to lose as much money as possible. That means I'm signing up as many accounts as possible,' Borislow says." Perhaps if I ran huge long distance bills it might make sense to try to bribe me into joining up, but I and my husband actually average less than $10 month. We are just not telephone people, and mainly use email for long distance communication. I'm going to cash the check, as I'm tired of dealing with T's service, and look into shorting the stock as well. That fellow Borislow just has a big mouth, and a short seller has to love a CEO that says what he did in my cut and paste. Barb