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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (250)	2/20/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Hi pals, looking forward to Tuesday? Is the Pope Catholic? Yay, I got some powder ready and Blue surely you're right that go2net will way outperform Most Others Hooray 4 New Kid On The Block, The Champ Up-And-Comer Ringer. What was it like last year at this time? The (even post split) relatively small market cap and float along with it's growth and increased acceptance as a site to automatically bookmark along with xyhoo(glad I finally got some of that too!)- plus the obvious competitiveness against it from xaol- sure does give a crystal ball on what's likely to come.... Think of GNET next year at this time. And if it's (sadly to me because I love Go2net drama unfolding as is) to be gobbled up by a GE or CBS or MSFT or AOL or VIA or DIS etc. Pac-Man - well my wallet will be happy about it and that's what's most important in the long run. If such a thing happens there would likely be a huge pop around announcement and if it doesn't happen go2net will continue to grow and extend it's services and reach - a Win/Win Situation. I sold my CPQ recently for powder, plan to buy it back again when it falls some more before it goes back up which I think will happen. I think I'm finally getting the hang of trading in and out to increase shares. My timing isn't so sharp yet like yours Blue, but not too bad for a beginner I did well this time with the pop and the dip. I traded with GNET and AOL before and around the split announce & again last 2 weeks like you; and that's what I'll do with them both after the split. The timing of the pennies is involved too and it looks like it'll all unfold according to plan. Sure do hope so! It's like being at the poker table daring to raise Maverick or something. Much too exciting and it's like when you slid all your chips to GNET that time Blue. Not something I could stand to do very often but once in awhile it sure is fun. All my AOL is long since paid for, its a free ride Wheeeeee, so its OK by me to keep squeezing it and squeezing it the louder it QUACKS. And Blue, there's another side to the question of the quality.... (What in My Contrarian Opinion is The Giant 909er.. It Dares To $uck! (WHAT did I say?) Yep. It $ucks. Blue I think that the problems you mentioned about xaol are true, yet I think it's good news to see it in the ranks of the great big All-Time American Stocks! (WHAAAATTT?) To $uck & monopolize & get away with it-now that's Power! Microsoft $ucks and it's the master since IBM of annoying people to the max like it does and it not only gets away with it but thrives. So Now AOL follows the great tradition of other Co.'s that the more they $uck the more they seem to thrive; once they stop trying so hard to please.... McDonalds, ATT, Pepsi, WalMart, Proctor & Gamble, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, American Express, Citibank, so many of them...tradition that goes back to the robber barons and Rockefeller...Steve Case is about to enter their ranks and America Loves A Robber Baron. He might build a bigger house than Gates now and if so it's bound to be on the cover of Fortune Magazine. The more it gets away with the more the consumer is mesmerized. I don't use their PF site anymore for my own DD til I go to it last to see if aol cares about a company enough to erase news on it or otherwise step on it. If so, I'm interested to wonder why. It's stepped all over xgnet lately among others. Not even listed in the internet forums, etc. It's an octopus hating any competition. I find it gratifying to know xgnets big competition. I've gotten used to playing with AOL shares and them puppies QUACK! Yank 'em all away, buy 'em back again, they've been a great trading cash cow with very little initial investment that I got back multiplied. None of my AOL anymore is from my pocket; it's all a free ride. Same as the GNET; which doesn't $uck (yet?!). I know, sometimes I come from a wack-o point of view, but I really got a hunch on this one. The MM's and Fund Mgrs. might step on it now and then, but it's A Giant. If AMZN price went to almost 500 and AOL never went above 200, it seems to me like the room for share growth is there. Not to mention those 909's... What A Great Board. Your pal, Joan