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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (16599)	9/10/1998 8:05:00 AM
From: Tom Klempay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, Thanks for not flaming away on the messenger of the article <g>. Last I heard, Dell was doing $4-5 million/day in web business. I forget the Cisco number, but it's over $1 billion/year. -tk

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (16599)	9/10/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: e. boolean	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>For instance, the name "Amazon.com" no longer stands only for "online bookstore." It is becoming synonymous with "ecommerce winner" -- The funny thing is that she's exactly right about that. Usually it's considered helpful if the meanings of phrases have some correspondence in reality -- but the Big Lie phenomenon says that people will be more suspicious of a modest lie than they will of a whopper, so they will cheerfully buy a company bleeding red ink and imagine it's making money hand over fist. As Rob S. has pointed out repeatedly, NMZA is the stock from Bizzarro World. Hello and Bad Luck to us all! e.b.