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To: TIMBO who wrote (3493)	8/19/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: Nick	Respond to of 10081

Timbo, I'm a bit confused with this stock as well. I started buying at $4, but ended up averaging my buying price to $8. So when GMGC hit $15 I felt like a genius!! Now I obviously feel like an idiot for not selling any of it. The only advice I can offer you and myself is to keep your eye on the ball and the long term picture. When revs start rolling in, it will reflect in the stock price. In the short term, I guess just try not to panic...which believe me, isn't easy. Keep the faith...and it hopefully will pay off. Just my 2 cents... Good luck Nick

To: TIMBO who wrote (3493)	8/20/1998 7:08:00 AM
From: Bruce Supranowicz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Timbo, besides shorts, perhaps there's some sellers from the Preferred Series A and B shares from early this year. They could be selling off a bit here and there, maybe 50-100K shares a week - just enough to cause the price to slowly drop, barring any news. But the potential of this company, and thus, the stock, are still in place.

To: TIMBO who wrote (3493)	8/20/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Timbo, please try and go back to 2 7/8 level and read the news. Check the news given with the stock action. Then notice that there were several down periods like this, but not as much as 15 to 6, of course. This is purely news driven. It's obvious the AREN'T hyping this with news from Corp. During that period this stock goes down. Again, I think there are doubles over and over to be made here until someone decides that Portico just ain't that good. Has anyone even vaguely decided that yet? I'm curious. But at this level people in now are undoubtedly looking at 100 plus, perhaps 200 increase on news in the near future. That's the gamble. If it was that easy, like the guys at Schwab say, they wouldn't be sitting there paid by the hour to talk to me. Anyway, I'm going to get worried in NOvember, and until then, try and get up the nerve to get back in at this level. But for me, with several small investments that were horribly timed, I'm overloaded here already, so probably should just sit back and wait. If Portico was doing badly, all of the hype that followed it since Gates got in and the CNBC press release most certainly got the attention of those who follow new products like the critics follow new restaurants and rate the food. Those people need articles for their magazines and they would be tearing it up just for interesting copy. Does anyone see that? I don't read that stuff so I'm completely ignorant of buzz in the huge pc/comm magazine world. There are about 50 of them now it seems. Any bad news at all will start coming out in columns, etc, and in negative comparison articles. It doesn't look like that's happenign, and that's what I've been looking for as a reason to get concerned, IF there is any. So, if you check the charts and see this lull seems inevitalbe, unfortunately, and scan for any negative pre buzz, that probably would be a really good indication either way. If not, please clue me in that I don't have a clue.