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Technology Stocks : FBN Associates - Year 2000/Y2K IPO!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1492)	8/13/1998 10:22:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

Thursday August 13, 10:22 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Order for 100,000,000 Units Of Y2K Software SEDONA--(BIDNESS WIRE)--August 13, 1998--(NAZDAQ: FBNA - news) The company is pleased to announce, that it has acquired the worldwide rights (excluding Australia, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe,) to the Millennium Date Kit. The Kit will answer the question: ''Can my computer get me dates on January 1, 2000?'' If the answer is NO then the Kit will correct your problem. In addition, the Kit will identify and cancel the dates on your computer that are not date 2000 compliant. The site www.millenniumdatekit.com will answer any questions on the product. In addition, Fly By Night Associates had a very successful Datex show, where its software was very well received. The software was demonstrated to several major Financial Institutions. There are 250,000,000 PC's worldwide; 230,000,000 are not date compliant. More significantly, the company has received an order for 100,000,000 units of its Millennium Date Kit. Negotiations are continuing, with a major Internet provider, to become their on-site Date 2000 solution. For further information call: 1-800-GET-DATE Contact: Janice Shell 800-GET-LOST

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1492)	8/13/1998 10:26:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

Jeff, I feel you've really, really missed the marketing strategies at work here. It's obvious to me that AOL Canada has agreed to allow PINC to pay them to advertise on AOL. As the deal is "non-exclusive" it means that AOL will be happy to take in more money from anyone else who wishes to also advertise with them. This is the pay now and reap rewards later ploy. Unfortunately, it is the company shareholders who (indirectly) pay AOL, and AOL who reaps the rewards later. Perhaps the PINC stock price might rise a penny or two on this questionable news, but... hey! It's not my money on the line here. The sad thing is that the people who have been hyping this thing are about to dump all their cheap shares on all the poor saps who have put their faith in them up until this point. Nothing new here. It's all pump 'n dump, taken directly from the textbook. Wait a minute! I just realized you're NOT long on AOL. You're just short (of faith) in PINC. Oops. My error. I thought you had just bought one of those basket funds of Internut stocks. Boy, is my face red! KJC