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To: Trumptown who wrote (2343)	11/12/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: Wayne Rumball	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12872

People really seem to have lost it on internet stocks. BRE-X keeps popping into my mind. people paying hundreds of $/share to buy companies that have yet to make money or prove that they can make money. Is internet shopping really going to be the wave of the future? Does your wife prefer to sit in front of a screen to do her shopping rather than go the touchy fealy route in an actual shop? What happens to impulse buying over the net? Probably doesn't exist. People using computers and shopping over the net expect quick results. Clicking through a maze of pages to get to that CD you are looking for probably takes most people longer than they would like and all the banner ads for items that might be impulse purchases in a shop just become clutter and irritating noise. INKT at $120/share does what for the world? makes web pages load a little faster though a better caching algorythm. Better, faster internet access technology, higher compression algorythms and dare I say it, a restructuring of the net itself could make INKT's products worthless before they ever strike internet gold. But as everyone knows, the net can't go faster, we can't compress more, and the net is too huge to change. If someone says it can't be done, someone else will take on the challenge and do it. And internet auctions? Oh well, some people will buy anything, even worthless companies for 10's or 100's of dollars a share. But those companies are prospecting, soon to be mining because it looks like they hit gold, just as long as those assay results were correct.