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To: Stocker_Roberts who wrote (12)	3/1/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: Richard Bunker	Respond to of 127

Stocker, I agree. I think that there is a like model in traditional publishing. Magazines like "Solid Waste Management Quarterly", and "Corrugated Paper News" (ok I made up the titles, but you get the idea) always have the very highest advertising rates around, and high subscription prices, and people who get them really read every page. They make great money, while general interest media will always have just a few big winners, and hundreds of losers. I think VERT is extending this model very well into the Internet e-commerce marketplace. If they get all of the plastics engineers to come to plastics.com (again a made-up example), then the advertisers and sellers of goods and services will come there, too. And they will have build wonderful, loyal, valuable community using this super communications medium just the way it should be used. They should team up with SI to teach them how to do forums right, so they can get the engineers talking to each other, as well. I think VERT has a great future. Rick.