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To: Slumdog who wrote (15932)	12/6/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Jan Garrity Allen	Respond to of 27307

Welcome to the yahoo rocket the only sector to be in for the next decade!! Again Welcome Aboard!!

To: Slumdog who wrote (15932)	12/6/1998 9:26:00 PM
From: The_Guru_00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Welcome D. Taylor - glad to hear you are short If we get a few more shorts, we may have a majority soon. Are you from Chicago too? Anyway, regarding e-commerce - it is and will continue to be huge. With certain things such as clothes where you need to see, feel, and try on, it will lanquish. Note calalog clothes. Other things are perfect, however. The best example is music. Better inventory, broader selection, listening samples, user interface for assistance, it is awesome. Not to mention no rent, no shrinkage, no drugged-up 17 year old at the checking counter pissing off your customers. Specialty retail for music is a dinosaur. On that note check out shorting Musicland, they will be the first to go given their leverage. The convenience of e-commerce cannot be beat. Good news for Yahoo shorts is that Yahoo will not benefit. In fact, the proliferation of successful internet functions will focus people on the non-value added nature of content aggregation portals. How long will the advertisers pay to put banners on spamming chat pages? Welcome

To: Slumdog who wrote (15932)	12/6/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: stock_bull69	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27307

Even though I'm out of YHOO (having earned $12k in my IRA in 4 months) I disagree with your statement about consumers being apprehensive about shopping on the net. I've been doing so for over 2 years purchasing airline tickets, CD's, hotel reservations, tour packages, stocks and flowers. If anything my internet shopping is increasing the more comfortable I get using the net. Your statement that on line shopping will actually decrease the closer we get to Christmas is illogical. Given a choice of spending hours driving, parking and bumping into a mob of shoppers versus spending a few minutes on the internet. Granted, there are things that are difficult to shop for on the internet like a suit where exact measurements need to be made or TV's which all look alike on a web page but for the most part if you know what you're looking for and have done your homework internet shopping is a breeze. The fact that you are shorting YHOO speaks for itself. Best of luck! Steve