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To: Larry Levine who wrote (177)	4/8/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Bob Duncan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15145

Larry: Not sure. I would point out that a friend of mine enters 500 shares every time and always gets shares. I always just enter 100, but my success rate is poor. Also, he always flips. I also wonder if the process involves account numbers in any way? (I mean if it is random, on easy way to do it would be to give shares to a range of account numbers)

To: Larry Levine who wrote (177)	4/8/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Tom_	Respond to of 15145

Re: ETrade's system. Hi Larry! and thanks. I don't know about the ins and outs of entering large numbers. Hopefully, someone else might. Bob Duncan posed an interesting question also, about ETrade's procedure. Permit me to attach here, rather than making it a separate post, this copy of my reply to him, from the VUSA thread. Hi Bob! Thanks for the summary! What is your opinion on the system, do you believe it is random? I am convinced it is, and frankly that is nice to know. What do you think? I don't know Bob. I think I'll be conservative and reserve comment. All I know for certain about anything is that I have a printout of my time-stamp.<g> I agree with you--I think no matter what it is now, they'll probably go random. IMO they want people to visit their site after market hours and more folks will, for IPO's, if they know they have a fighting chance no matter what time they post their IOI. Best wishes, Tom