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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (25928)	4/3/1999 2:29:00 AM
From: JMD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Jeez Ramsey--just trying to do my job. Went out of town for a little biz trip, came back to find my net worth had doubled, the number of posts had tripled, and fears of irrational Mighty Q exuberance had exponentially concatenated. Godawmighty, we spent the past two years crawling in the snake pit of depression and now the followers of Irwin are freaking out lest they be confused with xyxyx.com. Figured I had to bring down the control hammer hard before the thread went to hell in a hand basket. To soothe your ruffled (chicken) feathers, may I offer the following suggestion to address our new circumstances? DSL, Digital Subscriber Line, and Surfer Mike has got it Big Time. Before you eat your hearts out, it is a modest 384kbs "up and down" as we techno-geeks are fond of saying, but let me just add that I strongly suspect that anything faster would be dangerous to your Web surfing health. I mean 384 just flies!! How fast is it? Glad you asked. Consider that most posts can be scanned in 5 seconds or less which permitted me to catch up on the 43 zillion I missed in just under 4 hours. Okay, Maurice's posts bring the overall average to a bit over 10 seconds, but merely by eliminating Pricing & Politics, I found an acceptable bandwidth solution. The boys who slop this magic goop on existing copper phone lines magically transforming them into twisted pair greased lightning go by the name of Covad. This is a Silicon Valley outfit that seems to have the world by the cajones at this writing: I am so impressed with the technology that I thought I'd stuff a few shares of COVD in the old portfolio until I stared at a market cap north of Venus. The Q looks like U.S. Steel by comparison. Anyway, with all the excess cash flow jingling in everybody's pockets, I thought this would be a good way to sop up the surplus and deal with the torrid love affair the whole wide world has suddenly developed for direct sequence spread spectrum. Now, you ready to smoke the old peace pipe? :-)