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To: Joana Tides who wrote (1091)	4/25/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 7442

HELP for MARK HAINES, DAVID FABER and the INTERNET CHALLENGED. PART I by yer pal BLUE I know I have my work cut out for me trying to educate those who for YEARS now, have made non-stop, non-factual comments about internets (eg "internets don't have earnings"). It will be difficult to educate those who have a fictional mind set but it can and hopefully will happen. Mark and David may think they are funny with their comments about the internet stocks but what they are really doing is robbing investors with their comments, confusing the public, the exact opposite of what their jobs really are. If a drunk can sober up then these guys can "get smart". If David wants a "Annoying Comparison" it is who is more lost when it comes to internet stocks, Haines or Faber? I'm here to help but like getting sober you can't change until you really want to change, you can't fix a problem until you admit you have a problem. This sadly means that if Mark and David can not have a "OPEN MIND" this work I do today and in the days ahead may not help them. We have a big job here so let's get started. Mark, David and all internet challenged, OPEN YOUR MINDS. Try to be a free thinker while you read this. Try to be honest with yourself, for if you can be honest you will understand internets and much of your old world thinking will go the way of the Edsel. The internet is the present and the future. Those who invest in the future and understand where we are going will become or are, rich. Print doesn't lie, it is history. History can be spun but, the truth is the truth. If you go back and read this board you will see YTD returns of several hundred percent. The result just the product of understanding TYPE I and TYPE II internet stocks. I know Mark and David will be hard to bring around so I'm going to use some companies I invest in, and chances are that Mark and David invest in to help me. Mark and David may not believe me but I'm sure they believe IBM and INTC. I believe in BIG BLUE and INTC or I would not own paper stock, the real deal, never traded shares of IBM and INTC. Mark and David must have access to IBM and INTC's annual reports. I got mine in the mail about two weeks ago. I took one look at them and said, "how the hell can the guys at CNBC read these reports and not get the picture?" I got the idea then of using a MAJOR to help Mark and David and all internet challenged. Let's review what caught my attention. We will start with Intel. The 1998 Intel annual report cover says "building a connected world." The cover shows an ONLINE lap top PC. Inside it says "Our vision: getting to a BILLION connected computers world wide." Question: How do you think you connect a billion computers? Internet? Think now, what companies are in place to benefit from Intel's goal? The 1998 IBM annual report cover says "startup". Inside the first thing you see is comments about starting a new venture and the freedom that comes with doing so, this is another way to say internet. Inside the report you find what I like "the FACTS." This is from page 12 and 13 of IBM's 1998 annual report: " consider THE FACTS.......The Internet is the epicenter of change today...... It took radio nearly 40 years to reach 50 million people. TV took 13 years. Cable TV 10. Not six years after the birth of the World Wide Wed, more than 140 million people are online - and some estimate that 50,000 NEW USERS -workers, students, buyers, sellers, patients and citizens - come online every day in the United States alone. They use the Net both as a medium and as a destination - the largest, most restless, round-the-clock marketplace the world's ever seen. because the incentives are irresistible............ The net dissolves barriers that once limited market access and opportunity. It creates new ways to achieve global reach, find new customers, improve services, conceive and deliver new offerings. It fundamentally alters the economics of transactions. The cost of basic banking transactions drops from $1 to ONE CENT on the Net. Companies that once spent $35 to process an expense form, do it for less than $5 using intranets. creating opportunities of all businesses and institutions............ We're watching the creation of nothing less than a new economy. By one estimate, Internet commerce grew from $12 billion in 1997, to more than $30 billion last year, and will surpass $425 billion by 2002. You can find other estimates that see a $1 trillion marketplace in the same time frame. What's harder to measure - but even more significant - is the value of the Net as it transforms the internal operations of organizations and redefines the important work of noncommercial institutions. (and for the information technology industry). Our industry is growing about 10 percent a year, and spending on e-bussiness hardware, software and services is growing twice as fast. At these rates, the overall technology industry should reach $1.6 trillion by the year 2002, and e-business will account for $600 billion of that total." The above comments are from Intel and IBM not me. If these company's focus is so clear then so is the future.....the internet. If you now really believe and see the impact of the World Wide Web you are now ready to move on to PART II, AFTER you do your home work. Your home work is to keep an open mind and to read Techride post # 126, 142, 194 and 218. You have two days to do this as I'm taking my birthday off when it comes to typing something like this. ( Help for Mark Haines, David Faber and the Internet Challenged (all parts) and Making a Million in Internets (all parts) copyright 1999 by yer pal BLUE @ Bsnowshoe@AOL.com)