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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (58114)	4/15/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

El: I was wakened by Jeeves, my valet, who said that you had made an important posting about AV (he keeps constant watch for me). So I put on my dressing gown, which he had thoughfully provided, and toodled over to the goggle box and, by jove, there it was. What a spiffing article, Very good - top hole, jolly hockey sticks!

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (58114)	4/15/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

RE: Sometime later this year, Rod Schrock will join the swelling ranks of the cyber wealthy when AltaVista goes public. I wonder what special deal Schrock got for AV equity? He is, after all, just another CPQ employee who is taking our asset public. I'd like to know the details of how much equity was given to CPQ executives who changed jobs to go to AV. It better be in line with their normal CPQ options packages or shareholders have got a real beef. After all these people did not found the company - it was a part of the purchase of DEC, for which we have all paid the price over the last year. This would be a good question for the shareholders' meeting.

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (58114)	4/16/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

Thanks for the posting El! Two comments: First, on this section: [quote begin] Even though its AltaVista subsidiary now chalks up 25 million unique visitors each month, it has been slow building the sort of wide-ranging brand identity associated with Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), America Online (NYSE:AOL - news) and the other leading lights in the Internet portal constellation. [quote end] I signed-on AT&T's Worldnet last week. At the top of the home page is an area to do searches with a default of Lycos. Clicking for other search engines, Alta Vista is not there but Yahoo, mentioned in the press release, is--along with Excite, Infoseek, Web Crawler, Snap, Hot Bod. Second: >Sometime later this year, Rod Schrock will join the swelling ranks > of the cyber wealthy > when AltaVista goes public. Although this can be interpreted as a clue that shareholders might get a piece of the action, I am wondering if this just means part of Rod's employment package includes a number of AV shares. Lynn