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To: CanynGirl who wrote (6664)	3/9/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: RobbRacer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Canyon Girl, I just read your post and found it very interesting if true. But from what I understand about how block sales work I'm not sure if you are incorrectly assuming some things. It is my understanding if a block sale of size is to occur the firm handling the sale would "place" those blocks with only a handful of other firms who express an interest in buying it. Typically a block of 200,000 shares of a hot internet stock would only take a couple of calls. the stock would then be DTC'd to the buying firm or DVP'd (delivery vs. Payment) and the transaction would be complete. Because of the size of the tranaction and the manner in which it was delivered, this trade would not be reported to the tape and thus not broken up into 200 share lots as you suggest. You can probably confirm this with steve goldman. He would have knowledge of this I'm sure. Rob

To: CanynGirl who wrote (6664)	3/9/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Geigartt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

Canyun: RE The street.com articles which are part of the "premium" service. It's probably not worth the bother now, but next time you reference a premium site, could you cut&paste enough for us non subscribers to benefit? I assume this is possible because Shafik (sp) ref'ed the same site in a later post and posted parts of the article. Thanks.