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To: IPOhopper who wrote (212)	3/12/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Cy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 228

IPO, you are building quite a collection of words to describe me, "complete liar," "misleading," "anti-AW cronie," (sic) "moron." In my limited experience people usually result to insults as a last resort when reason and logic fail them. Perhaps you can enlighten me and tell me when I have lied, how I have been misleading, etc. As relates to your latest personal attack, it seems eerily reminiscent of how I was treated by this company when I first visited their E-Commerce environment, and of the way in which AWLD officers seem to deal with their own customers (I will be happy to quote them if you wish, it is amazing what you can find by simply reading newsgroups and BBs). Now to your point. Reverseman/NYBull/Wayne Glassoff/etc. is strongly touting two companies (NTXY and AWLD) that are both trying to attract and retain a "community" of users, both want these users to spend as much time as possible in their environments. In essence they are competing with each other for internet users. They are both now offering 3D shopping (3D E-Commerce). NTXY allows you to shop for products in 3D without the need to download a plugin or additional software, all you need is a java enabled browser. AWLD's approach is to show 2D images of product and while calling the experience 3D shopping. My question for Reverseman/NYBull/Wayne Glassoff was why NTXY chose the Pi Grafix technology for creating a 3D shopping experience instead of the solution offered by AWLD. A simple question, and one that you, as an AWLD investor may seriously wish to ask for yourself. BTW, AWLD's recent E-Commerce effort (@mart) seems to have been an utter and complete failure (unless you consider 1-3 visitors at a time, one of them apparently a bot, a success). If AWLD itself, with its 680,000 users, is unable to attract more than a few visitors to its E-Commerce solution, what makes you think that a business, without AWLD's expertise in the ActiveWorlds software environment, will be able to do any better with AWLD software than AWLD itself? In essence, it seems to me, that the vaunted AWLD approach to 3D E-Commerce is DOA. Take a good look at these numbers: AWLD claims (on its web page) to have over 680,000 users, over 1 million browser downloads, over 1,000 daily downloads of its software, over 20,000 average logins per day, and over 1 million hits to its 3D site per day. What do these numbers translate into in terms of their E-Commerce strategy? As I write this there are 3 users in @mart. Even when AWLD forced its users to enter @mart by making it the default landing area for new users, there were usually only about 15 to 20 users present in @mart; several of which were probably hopeful shopkeepers. Now, remember that @mart is AWLD's crown jewel, unveiled to coincide with its IPO, and that they thus put every possible effort into making it a success. With the IPO and the company's reputation riding on it, the @mart project has turned out to be a dismal failure; even with a claimed 680,000 users being exposed to it every day. I would say that the failure of @mart is probably a good indicator of the future of the AWLD technology in the E-Commerce arena, all hype and wishful thinking to the contrary notwithstanding. So I return to my original question. Why, if the AWLD 3D E-Commerce solution is so superior to anything else out there, would NTXY opt to license someone else's (Pi Grafix) 3D E-Commerce solution? I asked Reverseman, because he seems to be quite familiar with both companies. I am still waiting for an answer from him.