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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (50945)	4/16/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

With co-presidents Bezos and Koogle.... Bezoogle? LOL...that is funny:-)

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (50945)	4/16/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

This is a press release LOL: "eCom eCom.com begins online advertising push RIVIERA BEACH, Fla., April 16 (Reuters) - eCom eCom.com Inc. <ECEC.OB> said on Friday its trading club launched a new promotional campaign with Internet advertising on various Web portals, including Yahoo Inc. <YHOO.O>. eCom eCom.com develops Internet electronic commerce enterprises. Its ECEC Trading Club unit -- an online auction forum -- is trying to establish a foothold in the Internet auction industry. The company's Web site, www.ecomecom.com, also unveiled a new look on Friday and introduced programming for membership registration and listing of items. The auction site would open on April 29, it said. eCom eCom.com also said it would advertise on Lycos Inc<LCOS.O>, Excitein Inc <XCIT.O>, Alta Vista, and Doubleclick eCom eCom.com also said it would advertise on Lycos Inc<LCOS.O>, Excitein Inc <XCIT.O>, Alta Vista, and Doubleclick networks. The company did not provide financial details."

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (50945)	4/16/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

But at the largest options exchange, the CBOE, the form of price-fixing allegedly occurring at the Amex seems less likely. At the CBOE, market makers shout at each other to compete for business, in this fashion exchanging bid-ask quotes that are written down by exchange employees and then shown on trading screens. By contrast, at the Amex, prices are set by the specialists, and floor price ''reporters'' do not play the active role of their counterparts at the CBOE. Resolving this problem would require a change in the way prices are reported--which SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. proposed in a letter to the options exchanges on Feb. 10. He observed: ''It is now feasible for each competing market maker to publish its own quote''--an innovation that would do away with any two-tiered pricing at the exchanges, the Amex included. With that proposal, Levitt appeared to acknowledge at least the potential for discriminatory pricing at the exchanges. Amex Chairman Richard F. Syron expressed surprise and chagrin when told of the alleged two-tier pricing. Syron says even the most informal price-fixing arrangements are simply not acceptable at the exchange. ''That would be wrong. That should not happen....There can't be tacit agreements.'' Syron, however, does not believe the allegations. ''It is not at all infrequent to have one group [the traders] complaining about the other group [the specialists],'' he says.