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To: Dale Baker who wrote (4443)	4/17/1999 9:08:00 AM
From: Richard Tsang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

Thanks for sharing the experience. $2K is all I would be willing to put in this account. The first 3 trades will be free so I will go online and open the account before they withdraw that promotion. Do they also handle LEAPs? RT

To: Dale Baker who wrote (4443)	4/17/1999 9:24:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

A Steve Harmon post which - just by coincidence - reflects my thinking about trading the Internuts. To: LABMAN (1124 ) From: steve harmon - analyst ( Ignore ) Friday, Apr 16 1999 2:34AM ET Reply # of 1141 selling on a downswing often provides fuel to the fire i believe investors need to always be aware of their positions and what they need to take off the table to cover their cost basis and then invest with the gains (if any) but a selloff is good to me since the internet segment has been blazing let it cool a bit and selective buying makes more sense i enjoy it when market leaders get caught in the downdraft for no fundamental reason -- in the past that triggers buying in them again corrections on emotion/profit taking are normal it's when the underlying fundamentals (revenue/earnings/growth/users/buyers) show weakness that i get worried...and that isn't behind this selloff...pure profit taking in my opinion

To: Dale Baker who wrote (4443)	4/17/1999 9:26:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 118717

OT - an example of what my agency, USIA, is doing in the Kosovo crisis. USIA Sets Its Sites on Yugoslavia Web Used to Counter State-Run Media By Thomas W. Lippman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 17, 1999; Page A15 If the editors of a clandestine newspaper in Yugoslavia want those NATO aerial photographs of suspected mass graves in Kosovo or the pictures of refugees trapped in a valley under fire from Yugoslav security forces, they can get them with a keystroke. If an underground radio station wants to evade censorship rules imposed by the leader of the Serb-run Yugoslav government, President Slobodan Milosevic, it can have instant access to the voices of Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana and other western officials explaining NATO's air campaign. And if those refugees huddled in camps in Macedonia and Albania want to use e-mail to communicate with their families or search for missing relatives, they soon will be able to do that. This is the war in cyberspace. The United States Information Agency is dispatching texts in Albanian and Serbian, sound bites, photographs and links to the western media on the Internet. The USIA material is a major part of the U.S. government's contribution to war by Internet. The agency has assembled a Kosovo information site that provides graphics, sound, maps, photos, archival material and texts -- in many languages, including Russian, Albanian and Serbo-Croatian -- in an effort to break through Milosevic's control of the news media in Yugoslavia. "We can provide an antidote to the information desert that exists in Serbia," said Jonathan Spalter, USIA associate director. "The Internet is a sharp new tool in the diplomatic arsenal." The onset of the air campaign in effect has recreated the role that USIA was established to play during the Cold War: trying to disseminate information to people with no access to independent media, and trying to counter misleading information disseminated by the other side. Senior U.S. officials said USIA, the Defense Department, the State Department and the CIA are all engaged in a campaign to get information into Yugoslavia through whatever channels are available, including such familiar conduits as the Voice of America and such recent tools as direct broadcasts that can be received by Yugoslavs with satellite dishes. It is not clear how many people in Yugoslavia have access to the Internet, although many are known to have subscribed when opposition media such as the B92 radio station began using it to transmit. Spalter and other U.S. officials said they think even limited distribution has a multiplier effect as documents are reproduced and downloaded and sound bites are broadcast. Skeptics about the information war, such as analyst William Arkin, said that such enthusiasm is misplaced because there is no serious underground or opposition press in Yugoslavia, partly because Milosevic has cracked down and partly because the Serb people -- angry at the NATO bombing -- have rallied around their leadership. Furthermore, the most popular source of information is state television, which has remained on the air because NATO decided not to destroy its transmitters. The government TV network has broken some of the most dramatic stories of the air war, including the downing of a U.S. F-117 "stealth" fighter jet, the capture of three U.S. soldiers in a border skirmish and NATO's bombing of a passenger train. But U.S. and British officials said they are convinced that the Internet is a lever on Yugoslav public opinion. They said that Milosevic, who controls the only four Internet access providers in Yugoslavia, has refrained from closing them because his government is using the Internet for disinformation and propaganda. USIA is hardly the only area of cyberactivity in the war. Individuals and groups across Yugoslavia have unleashed a torrent of e-mail about the bombing campaign, and hackers from Belgrade attacked NATO's Web site. Supporters of B92, which Milosevic shut in early April, have set up a Web site based in Amsterdam. None of the freelancers, however, can match USIA's resources in technology and personnel. The agency has assigned six people, for example, to monitor online discussions about the war and make information available to participants on the spot. And this week Spalter negotiated establishing Internet and e-mail access sites in refugee camps.