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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BGR who wrote (54565)	4/4/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Since I haven't seen any public corrections by Reuters and/or ML, I am not convinced that it was a misquote. BGR, Boy are you dumb as a fence post. Abbey Jo C. of Goldman confused Dell's earnings multiple pre-split to post split price. Don't hold your breath for a correction on her comments. Regards, Ice

To: BGR who wrote (54565)	4/4/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

>>Having said that, may I now request you to stick to the argument in future and leave personal preferences alone? TIA!<< b, i guess it didn't work... >>BGR, Boy are you dumb as a fence post.<< ;-) yeah, you were right regarding dell's market share loss being partially seasonal. however, the fact the drop was 600% more than normal leads me to believe that ya'll may have wone the battle and lost the war. oh, do you now know that pc revs were negative in 1998 for the first year in history? do you know that retqail revs in feb were down in the high double digits and units were up 1%?

To: BGR who wrote (54565)	4/5/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

BGR, I will relax around you the way I would relax around a rabid jackal. You have jumped me every chance you have gotten, which is typical for your type. That doesn't even bother me. Join the club. However, when you slime me, and I prove you wrong, such as every time, you disappear for weeks and then come back and pretend you are an honest broker of info again. A bit sleazy and a bit cowardly, IMHO. You still have no idea about getting info first hand. Why not look up the Merrill report or, even better, the original Dataquest data that the Merrill geek was quoting? Merrill did not misquote Dataquest. Reuters misquoted him. You used the Reuters misquote to flame me. When I proved you wrong, you played invisible man, again. And now you are backing off from your original, wrong, assertion, blaming Reuters because you are lazy. Again, typical. Your data on Dell was exactly the argument I had made the week before on the Compaq thread. What amazed me was that for all your stat series, you were not even aware of the market share loss until I pointed it out to you. At least you didn't call me a liar for pointing it our, as your hero, Chuzz, did. And, of course, the fact that it was the worst market share loss by Dell in the past five years you dismissed as "not too bad." Since that is subjective, why not? MB