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To: David Tesorero who wrote (9497)	8/31/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: srvhap	Respond to of 11555

<<I picked up a couple of rolls of pictures today and was looking at them while the market was 'plunging' and could not help but smile when I saw the pictures of my little boy and I playing in the sand at the beach. Happy...Smiling...Healthy...Alive...>> Exactly the right attitude!! This too will pass (unless your margined to the hilt or wanted to retire this year :)) It's time to sit back, watch the young cowboys on the street Panic, and once they have finished panicing, look over the landscape and buy the bargins.

To: David Tesorero who wrote (9497)	8/31/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Samuel R Orr	Respond to of 11555

Hi David, You beat me today. Competitive though I am, you win the field. I took a good hit, but nothing close to the one you mentioned. But more important, you are correct about what really counts is being healthy, happy, smiling, and alive. Paper gains and losses come and go. Rudyard Kipling in the poem, If, comes closest to it when he speaks of treating those imposters, Triumph and Disaster, both the same. If worst comes to worst, we'll pool our remaining pennies for that Big Mac and Pepsi. There's always tomorrow, and I sure don't know how it will turn out. Just stay well and keep your sense of humor. Regards, Sam

To: David Tesorero who wrote (9497)	9/1/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Bald Man from Mars	Respond to of 11555

How about put their picture in your profile, so we can all enjoy it ... How old is your kid ??? I only lost 5K (13%), still painful ...

To: David Tesorero who wrote (9497)	9/1/1998 4:08:00 AM
From: rairden	Respond to of 11555

Dave, My hit today was nearly as bad as yours, but mostly added insult to injury, given the slides I've endured for months in IDTI and LSI. And now my beloved Cisco gets whacked. Perhaps a little rethinking of investment philosophy is in order, i.e., maybe I shouldn't be 100 % invested "going for broke". Maybe I should not have rashly taken all of August's paychecks and bought a couple hundred more shares of IDTI at 4 7/8 over lunchtime. But my lifestyle changed very little during the glory years of 1994-1996 and it won't change much now. Imagine Bill Gates' "loss" of $4,000,000,000 today. Ok, not the same thing. The serious questions will come when IDTI regains profitability and trades upward 50 to 100 % say next spring or summer. Yeah , call me an optimist, but these shares are oversold. There will come a time when IDTI again trades at 52-week highs and a decision on where to sell will have to be made. I suspect for those of us who weather this downturn, the tendancy will be to sell too early. Right now I cannot imagine ever seeing $15/share again let alone the all time highs of $35. Still I know that stranger things have happened. I'll ride along with Perham and Berg on this one. (Caution: the preceding discussion contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially. Duh.)