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To: Tim Luke who wrote (21957)	3/31/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: MIKFREE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90042

Saw this on Motley Fool board, fwiw, may be old news, may be nothing: Subject: heard throught the grapevine.. Date: 3/29/99 11:39 AM Author: FunkyDan Number: of 163 Everyone, Had a conversation with a friend, who knows somebody close to FORE. Told me to get in this week, for a sale of the company as early as Thursday by a large player. I think we are seeing the player come out now in the rumor mill. I have no proof of this sale, but consider this source very reliable. I'm in at 17 3/4... Good Luck everybody, I expect good things soon!!! FunkyD

To: Tim Luke who wrote (21957)	3/31/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: MikeUSA	Respond to of 90042

Check out Egreetings.com #1 website, 3 million members! GIBG has a major stake in Egreetings.com and will spin-off this division soon. $7 3/8 going up. Wednesday March 31, 8:01 am Eastern Time Company Press Release E-greetings Network Named No. 1 Free Digital Greetings Service TopTenLinks Gives Top Rating to E-greetings Digital Postcards and Animated Greetings SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1999--E-greetings Network, a leading Internet entertainment and communications company (http://www.egreetings.com), is currently the No. 1 free ''virtual card'' Website according to TopTenLinks. Voters ranked E-greetings(r) digital postcard and animated greetings as the best from among nearly 30 choices. TopTenLinks (http://www.toptenlinks.com) is a collection of more than 700 ''top ten'' lists of Websites divided into 22 categories. Sites are evaluated by a team of reviewers, who consider such factors as quality of content, site speed, ease of navigation and artistic design before listing a site and submitting it to an ongoing public vote. ''This No. 1 ranking by TopTenLinks voters proves that people think E-greetings are the best digital greetings available on the Internet,'' said E-greetings Network Chief Executive Officer Gordon Tucker. ''More than three million people have registered as E-greetings customers over the past few months and 30,000 new people sign up every day. We expect that number will continue to grow as more and people experience our unparalleled content and quality of service.'' E-greetings Network currently leads the TopTenLinks ''free virtual cards'' list with a 9.941 index ranking. This means that out of every 1,000 voters, more than 994 have given the E-greetings site the highest possible rating of ''10.'' Votes are tallied on an ongoing basis, so index numbers and rankings can change from day to day. The complete list of ''Top Ten Free Virtual Card Sites'' with index rankings as of March 30 is: 1. 9.941 E-greetings Network 2. 9.857 Electronic Postcards 3. 8.765 1001 Postcards 4. 8.657 Regards.com 5. 8.496 Cyber-Cards.com 6. 8.279 123 Greetings 7. 7.956 Card4You.com 8. 7.761 warmhands.com 9. 7.655 Corbis 10. 7.630 Blue Mountain Arts More than 3,000 different digital postcards and animated greetings are available on the E-greetings Network site at all times. These are appropriate for a wide variety of holidays and other special occasions, or simply to say ''hi.'' Some of the more popular E-greetings feature well-known licensed entertainment properties such as ''Austin Powers,'' ''King of the Hill'' and ''Star Trek.'' For more information about E-greetings Network and E-greetings products, please visit the company's Website at egreetings.com. Note to Editors: E-greetings is a registered trademark of E-greetings Network. Please E-mail Drew Blakeman at drew@landispr.com or call 415/975-5880 to obtain color slides or digital files of E-greetings artwork or a CD containing E-greetings Animations.