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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (114147)	4/4/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

CTC, Logged in for a brief moment and found out about your suspension and subsequent reinstatement. This goes to show how combination of good intentions and s/w bots are a recipe for disaster. Good to have you back! Now, speaking of options, I am afraid that I have to disagree with you outside of the accounting issue. I find ESOPs an excellent way of compensating employees, if implemented properly. IOW, if the company can buy the options that it is selling to it's employees from the market then the burden of employee compensation is being taken over from the company by the other side of the transacting party in the market. This can only be beneficial for the company. Also, if the company does rather well, ESOPs regularly compensate the employees in a manner far significant than their regular paycheck. I am not sure how many companies can actually compensate their employees at that level out of cash and still stay in the business. If the stock price falls, since the company has bought the calls in the market it has 0 liability and it's liability towards the employees have also fallen. If it rises, the burden is on the market, not the company. A win-win situation. -BGR.

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (114147)	4/4/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: edamo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

chuzzlewit..."mr. green eggs and spam"....free pc's, free pc's" analyze this latest form of scamboogery perpetrated on the consumer...and the analysts who call for the end of dell.. directpc "giving" away free 333mhz machines with 19.95 monthly internet service...will upgrade "free" in three years....good deal?? if you read the not so fine print in their two page ad in most major sunday papers....they require a "deposit"...if you do not pay with a "direct pc credit card"....the amount of the deposit not indicated... so, perhaps the deposit of several hundred dollars will pay up front for the almost obsolete 333mhz white box...they are in essence giving the service away for free...for they have an infrastucture that no one is using....a way to show growing revenues sans profit on a balance sheet....wall street loves them for being another "net" darling...rewards them for not losing as much as they should...and the owners laugh all the way to the bank with the benefits of their stock "souffle"...and when the oven door finally slams...and the air is let out of the "souffle"...they have naught to worry, for the egg will be on the face of the "investor"... another hi tech ponzi scheme...ed a. p.s...just like gtw "trade in"...but only if you finance thru them at 14.5% per annum.......just an overcharged interest rebate..