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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (27520)	4/19/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: Ingenious	Respond to of 152472

OT - Art, re: AOL, these people should be treated like any other person submitting articles to magazines. In some cases, the reason people submit is personal fame/fortune and not the direct pay from the magazine. In other cases, if the person gains a large enough folling then the people "volunteering" their articles will become guest writers or staff writers. Just because AOL is on the Internet, does not justify different treatment. If people "volunteer" for AOL and AOL makes money off them it should not have any bearing on their tax status anymore than people submitting articles to a paper. As far as quality stocks are concerned, I believe that AOL will become a multimedia powerhouse in the near future. They probably can be compared more to CBS than companies like QCOM. AOL will become the first Internet broadcast station. As soon as bandwidth picks up, TV guide will go away and people will view shows on demand. The AOL purchase of Netscape and long term deals with sunw and others makes AOL a huge player in this space. There growth will justify their existence and high valuation. Maybe not today, but certainly in the near future. IMHO Leland

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (27520)	4/20/1999 1:25:00 AM
From: Morgan Drake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

QCOM is the same gorilla today as it was last week. Although this may not be soothing to those who came in much higher than here (and on margin), it is, nevertheless true. Gorilla-wise, nothing has changed. What has changed is market sentiment. But this changes so quickly that it can 1-0 again by the end of the week. The problem is speculators (to include fund managers, yes), drive the market at the margins, not investors. QCOM is still one of the best investments to be had in the market place. OT - I can't seem to access Internet Options from my View drop down menu in IE 4.0. Nothing happens when I attempt to click on the I-Option tab (IE 4.0). This is a recent phenomenon. Also, Browsemaster doesn't seem to want to load up (also recent phenom.). Anybody have any ideas? (Please, no jokes about this being a bad week for options.) Morgan

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (27520)	4/20/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Art - Surely we can assume that AOL has some pretty good professional advice and wouldn't be doing things that they hadn't been assured were correct. They have a bigger position to enhance than the relatively immaterial savings you referred to and surely their advisors wouldn't want to lose their account? Still whatever but one thing is pretty clear after the CPQ debacle and that is that we should hope that AOL goes on togreat success rather than lands up in a mess because these things rub straight off into all the other techs for no good reason but they just do. So here's to AOL and itsd future great success. best regards, L