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To: Stan Michael who wrote (2174)	1/14/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: BomboochaBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17683

Someone please, please tell Steve Frankel to stop saying "UHHHHH..." 14 times a minute. I'm begging you people at CNBC, please...did someone offer him tickets to the Jets game or something, just to say "uhhhhhh" 79 times during his segment??? Aaauggggghhh!!!

To: Stan Michael who wrote (2174)	1/14/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Kudos to Mark Haines for calling the Schwab guy on the carpet this a.m. I couldn't believe it when the guy responded by saying that Schwab's online service could never be better. What a joke. Earlier this week, the site was completely down all morning and getting orders in via phone was virtually impossible. Not to mention yesterday's shoddy performance. I put a market order in at the open and got filled 27 minutes later...on a stock that had only traded 30,000 shares in the first half hour...of course, I ended up getting the low for the day, which was at 9:32. What a deal: trade online, get your reports back 25 minutes later, get filled at the low for the day. Perhaps they should provide traders with a blind man's cane, since trading with them in fast markets is just like walking around blind. I understand when systems fail, but this guy was an asshole to say that they had no problems.