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To: up_tick who wrote (3551)	8/25/1998 6:26:00 AM
From: Iraklis	Respond to of 10081

I believe the double charges for outgoing calls accurately reflects the true "costs" of providing the service. That is, since Portico is offered through a centeralized NOC, two calls are assoicated with evry outgoing call; One call from the Portico subscriber to the NOC; and another call from the NOC to to called party. If another company is offerring a portico like service via a centeralized NOC, and are NOT charging for both legs of the call, then they must be hiding the charges elsewhere. This so called double-charging may be what's necessary for GMGC to offer their service through large Telcos so that the call charges can be properly identified based on true usage. Think about it - what other motives would they have? Just trying to squeeze a little more out of each customer? I kind of doubt it. I'm currently out of GMGC except for some Feb Options at 12.5 which have lost 4/5 of their initial value. I'm hoping that GMGC drops lower so that I can buy back in. I believe that starting in Oct., GMGC will do everything it can to bring the stock price up so that the converatable shares do not dilute the outsatnding shares too much. GMGC's management not only have an obligation to their shareholders and employees, but also have a large vested interest themselves (in the form of owned stock shares, and options) Just a gut feeling, but I believe $12 by Nov might be a reasonable target for this stock. On the flip side, if things go bad in the over all market, I wouldn't be surprised to see GMGC stock bounce off of $3 1/2 within the next few weeks. This would be great for us who are not currently long and would like to get back into GMGC. Iraklis

To: up_tick who wrote (3551)	8/26/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Phone Cat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10081

>Phone cat. When I said rarely, I meant rarely. >I challenge you to find a miss. Too easy, up_tick! Any 'down_tick' search on yahoo will locate dozens of your misses. And some are huge whoppers. Here is one: Post #5271. where you predicted $5 on May 26th. GMGC closed at 11 instead. 100% miss - and you are a trader? I hope you keep a day job. For those who want to verify, sometimes the post numbers are 1 or 2 off, Yahoo board does that for some reason. Just check around that post number. Up_tick is famous on the Yahoo board for being always negative and usually wrong. In another post you predicted Portico wouldn't ship to market until end of year. Remember that? Or the time you claimed you had a "big meeting with gmgc", and then completely forgot about it the next day when challenged? I could go on and on, there are a list of your bad predictions and false pretenses in front of me, but I think everyone gets the point. Not picking a fight, up_tick, just not letting you run away from your seamy past. And letting SI know who they are dealing with. Apologizes to the civilized SI board. I'll go away and slum back on Yahoo now. Speaking of which, someone over there just accused up_tick of being both Sea Otter and Ray Rueb. Now, THAT is funny.