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To: BONZ who wrote (8946)	10/1/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: JOHN IACOVACCI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10903

I agree with you guys. Some actions have to be taken to stop this downward spiral. Their must be some established valuation for people to sit long. Actions need to be taken to help eg. Conference Call. TPII needs to work better with their investment community. I do like the embedded market place now. Hope they can sign more contracts. Lotta chips out their. Comment: David Hall now estimates that there are 40 billion chips and microprocessors. The standard estimate is 25 billion. This is from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (May 18). At a special briefing for Capitol Hill staffers set up by ITAA and the House & Senate IT Congressional Working Groups, Cara Corporation Embedded Systems Specialist David C. Hall stated that there are over 40 billion microprocessors worldwide, and anywhere from one to ten percent may be impacted by the date change. Embedded systems process information, monitor and control system functions and are integrated into everything from bank vaults to bottling plants. Hall said that embedded system failures will cause one of three outcomes: systems may i) shutdown, ii) produce large, observable errors or iii) small, less noticeable errors. He said 80 percent of the total Y2K effort may be expended fixing automated control and embedded systems. In demonstrating the ripple effect of the problem, Hall described an oil company that has determined the need to replace thousands of chips controlling an oil dispensation system. The chips, he said, do not fit on the existing motherboards and new motherboards do not fit into existing valves. As a result, the valves themselves will have to be replaced, Hall said. Hall also claimed that no plant or factory tested to date has been found free of all Y2K related problems.

To: BONZ who wrote (8946)	10/1/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: MB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10903

This is what I forwarded to John McGee: To: MB From: Black John (Trial Member) Tuesday, Sep 29 1998 4:38AM ET Mr. Mark Valentine and Steve Hicks .. (dba) Dominion and Sovereign have not and will not be getting any shares of CSGI. The rise in the price of CSGI is not due to the above parties converting and moving the stock higher. In fact, the move in the stock is due to the above parties and their previous activities being exposed on Yahoo and short covering by them. Certain MM's that may have helped the Canadian group as well as the above mentioned parties were caught short thinking they were going to be able to convert this week. THEY WERE NOT and WILL NOT GET ANY SHARES. Therefore, they had to cover their shorts. Prior to the Canadian's being exposed on Yahoo many of the large CSGI shareholders where taking there stock out of street name and putting it in 'safe keeping' .... and awaiting them (the Canadians) to be nailed. Although the stock couldn't be shorted by the general public, the MM's could short all they want. Getting the stock out of street name shrinks up the float and puts pressure on the shorts to cover. Since the float is sucked up due to the stock coming off the street holding or taking new short positions caries much risk due to the fact that stock may not be found to cover if the stock starts to run. It is my belief that NITE (Knight Securities) as well as NFSC (National Financial) are the ones who were caught short in CSGI. NFSC was tying to keep the price down just prior to Mr. Hicks and Valentine being exposed on Yahoo. If you check TPII level II you will see that NFSC is also on the offer and keeping the price down similar to what they were doing on CSGI before the investors took charge and implemented a Category 5 short squeeze. As soon as it was clear that the Canadians were short and that chances were good that it was caught in time not to give them any stock... the squeeze was on. As some buying came into the stock as well as the float shrinking due to stock coming out of street name and the Canadians realizing that they probably aren't going to get any cheap stock to cover their shorts with as well as the MM's who helped them such as NITE getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar... the stock was up up and away with massive volume and short covering. For Mr. Valentine or any of his associates to claim they weren't short is not only laughable, but not plausible. Mr. Valentine and his group have let their M.O. be known long before they dealt with TPII or CSGI. In fact, if he claims he is not short then the next question should be why did Champion Financial sue him and accuse him of illegal shorting ... and why is Lone Star (LNST) currently suing him and accusing him of similar activities ? NOT SHORT ? Yea right! I think he is just a bit upset that he got nailed! and CSGI wasn't going to give him the shares to cover his ass and that as soon as the other MM's saw him and NITE trying to cover they pushed the stock up. (please post this on TPII to inform the investors there) - I don't know if TPII has already given Mr. Valentine any shares, but if they have not, a similar strategy could be implemented. These guys are bad news and stink with illegal shorting activities. However, all hope is not lost there are ways to turn the table on them.