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To: tonyt who wrote (21230)	4/8/1999 8:39:00 AM
From: LABMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

FROM REUTERS Home - Yahoo! - Help [ Business \| US Market \| By Industry \| IPO \| AP \| S&P \| International \| PRNews \| BizWire ] Thursday April 8, 8:20 am Eastern Time Yahoo! Up at 215 Pre-open From 208-7/16 Wednesday Close (This is a headline-only alert, although it will likely be followed by an article soon) More Quotes and News: Yahoo Inc (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) Related News Categories: US Market News Help Copyright © 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?

To: tonyt who wrote (21230)	4/8/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: Cheryl Galt	Respond to of 27307

(OT) > A reason to always go to the source and not rely on a stranger's 'links' < Tony, That's quite a story. If ever there was a story to drive home the point that "People have to be smart enough not to trade on anonymous Internet postings," this was it. What a new insight into the "Buyer beware" caveat! What evidence that we are sheep among wolves! -- wolves with cheap, easy-to-use web weapons, and rapid, wide distribution of their hoaxes. And to think s/he did it on "Angelfire." Nothing angelic about such fire! I must admit, never before have i worried that i might be fooled by a link -- so much thanks for posting this example. The good news: The hoax came out on Yahoo at 9:37 am, and by a little after 10am a Yahoo poster already was calling it "bull" -- though not quick enough to deter 13 million of extra volume in Pair Gain shares traded -- and it took until 11:40 for Bloomberg to repudiate the bogus Bloomberg posting. If ever anyone writes a book called Tall Tales of the Wild Web, that story should be included. Regards, Cheryl PS - Now i'd better check the original Wall Street Journal, to verify that there really was such a story in the WSJ. ;-)