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To: Ray Rueb who wrote (3139)	8/2/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: Mike Gordon	Respond to of 10081

thoughts as a shareholder & customer * these FUD-spewing "newcomers" smell the fear and the quick buck. their arrival here at the time of a 35% pullback is no coincidence. * it's a game in psychology right now. if your convictions to the company's vision are not strong, you may be FUDed out of your shares at the current panic-level market price. how well do you know yourself? * fundamentally, as a long term investor, i'm happy. i'm in pain, but i'm happy. markman has fundamentally changed the company. hype factor is gone. dead. enter the no-bullshit stick-to-the-facts-mamn era. vision defined. plan created. milestones systematically achieved one by one. vision becomes reality. we're here. product is launched, ready for retail purchase. revenues and profits will determine the share price in the future. how much is one share of GMGC really worth? we will know soon enough. * i signed up for portico through Corporate Wireless Group (CWG) in chicago. i live in denver, work in NYC. location of reseller doesn't make any difference. i do think that GMGC should plug the resellers that are more on the ball so potential customers are not frustrated by these 1-man show operations that can't get interested customers activated ASAP. Caroline Starr from CWG was great. * i got a call from a customer service rep @ GMGC on friday. he talked me through 15 minutes of training, and i was up and ready to go. * from a customer perspective, i love portico already. it's wonderful. it's kind of like right you got cable TV for the 1st time, and wonder how you ever could have lived without it. initially, you wonder who in their right mind would PAY to watch TV when you can watch for free over the airwaves. once you get it, you understand why. i am an I.T. consultant, and i work all over the place. sometimes i'm at my client site, sometimes in my office, sometimes en route. and i need to be reachable at all those places by my colleagues. right now, i've got 5 phone numbers: an office phone, a home phone, a voice mail number, a mobile phone, a pager number. now with portico, i only need 1. i can see how addicted i will become to it just after playing around with it this weekend. * from a portico functionality perspective, things should only get better from here. conference calling coming soon. direct synchronization with my palmpilot (currently has to be through a desktop PIM app that syncs with palmpilot). international calling on its way. what else? i suspect things will evolve rapidly rather than slowly.

To: Ray Rueb who wrote (3139)	8/2/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Amy Roberts	Respond to of 10081

I've been here a while and have very much appreciated Ray, Otter and other's insightful posts. Wouldn't it be nice if we were always right with our opinions and positions? I, too, to have encountered another "Sea Otter" on a different board and I privately emailed this otter to inquire if they were the same. They are not. Even the tone of their posts suggested that. Anyway, my position in GMGC is very small compared to some here but it is almost all of my "trading" money. I protected some on Friday and now I can hold out down through 6. I had big plans for the "profits" but it is not my son's college money so I can sit tight. I still believe we will have our day in the sun. As bad as Friday was it was all put in perspective when I got home and learned my son's 18 yr old friend had died in a swimming accident. I can say "Its only money...." Amy