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To: Joana Tides who wrote (728)	4/9/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Respond to of 7442

Joan. RE: DNET, I'll check it out and let you know what I think. I made some nice buckeroos off it a while ago and took the money and ran. Perhaps it is time to do it again. I'm really happy with the real Techride portfolio except for CPQ. CPQ is pissing me off. They are truly as stupid and as slow as HWP when it come to making a move when the time is right. CPQ should fire the team in charge of the AltaVista spin off, they act as if they got hold of some of that Wall Street heroin. What the hell is the problem? Let me guess, CPQ wants to waste a bunch of CPQ shareholders money and time by building AltaVista before they spin it. STUPID. Spin it and build it with the profits from the stock spin off, DAH! By the time they build it and spin it, the market will be cool for internet IPOs not super hot, no doubt. CPQ wake up, ever heard of the quick and the dead? This is the internet not the slug paced PC world. I wonder what Russell would do, no I don't. 909 BLUE

To: Joana Tides who wrote (728)	4/10/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7442

Joan, The only good news about CPQ's earnings shortfall is the way OGRAY got the bad news on the old board. CPQ was halted last I knew down about 4 at 26+ or something like that. I tried not to look. At this point CPQ should change its name to AltaVista, sell the computer business to HWP and hire a CEO like Russell. Or they could clean house and THINK from now on. They are going to get killed on Monday. I now estimate a AltaVista spin off may open at three or four times the price CPQ will trade for on Monday. I won't be selling the dog$hit CPQ I bought at 30, chances are I'll be buying when the selling gets overdone. My buying is no vote for CPQ or its management. It is a bet on the internet. A bet that should of already paid off by now but CPQ has had their thumb up their a$$. I forgot CPQ is as slow and as stupid as HWP. I'll pay for forgetting that on Monday. You will recall it was HWP, late to market that started the whole low price computer mess that has killed the PC market. HWP was late and tried to buy market share with low prices. CPQ, IBM and others played this stupid game and the rest is history. You can thank old style thinking men who are high paid CEOs for both companies (CPQ and HWP) shortfalls. I should of bought more GNET. 909 BLUE