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Technology Stocks : Zapata (ZAP) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken M who wrote (302)	7/20/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 1206

<<<I could not agree more that there are exceptions to every rule but they are usually long shots and you will most likely lose if you bet on them.>>> Yeah, I guess. But who would have thought that an oil and gas company could make a go of it in FISH OIL? The whole point is that so far as I have been able to gather there is really very little evidence that anyone has presented to me that would lead me to believe that Zapata can't make it in the Internet business. Even by your own admissions you have presented very little that betrays their ability to make a profit at what they propose to do. I mean really Ken. You've presented such things as their name being somehow a detriment to the company, links to folks who say they can predict Zap's stock movement even thoough they can't write a presentable sentence in English, and a few posts reiterating the fact that a fish oil company shouldn't be able to make money on the Internet. However, let me tell you something. Do you know what the founder of Amazon.com did before founding the company? He was an investment banker. Did you know that the founder of Latino Link had no knowledge of the Internet prior to her launching the site? The Inet is still in its infancy. There's no reason that a fish oil company cannot make an impact anymore than there is no reason a horse equipment retailer can't make money using the medium. The only difference is one has 117 million dollars in chump change and the other one probably doesn't.