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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52959)	3/22/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

" Venture capitalists are only there when they can rip your face off. " Umm, they can't be worse than the floorless bandits. I've noticed that companies that do this kind of financing continue to do this kind of financing. If I were you I'd give the ANCR CFO a call to make sure that the conversions are finished, and keep my eye on Edgar watching for new S-3 filings. Don't get me wrong, it would be a pleasure to see one of these companies succeed, perhaps ANCR will be the first I've witnessed. Barb

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52959)	3/22/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

To All, CNBS tried to spin the lousy Feb sales story today by predicting that Dell and IBM and Compaq were all going to pull a receivables scam, though they didn't call it that. But here is the problem with that story. They had a lousy Feb last year and ran a receivables scam in March of 1998. So March may indeed be better than Feb, for the 7 dumb people who bought PIII, if for no other reason. But when you compare it to March of last year, it could still be pretty stinko. CNBS didn't cover that part of the scenario. MB