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To: Bruce Hoyt who wrote (14253)	5/9/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Johnny Stone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19109

The thing that no one has figured out is how do you get over 800 trades in one day because of a new poster that no one knows on a bulletin board that relatively few people read. A lot of people may read SI and RB, but relative to 800+ trades it seems to me that the number of bb readers of the TMMI subject couldn't account for that much activity. The volume started on Thursday in huge blocks. It had to be coming from somewhere besides the people on these bulletin boards. This is different from other run-ups in that we at least always knew where the rumors came from, usually at least vaguely from someone connected with TMM. Surely one post on RB didn't cause 800+ trades. Somewhere something out of the ordinary had to happen and none of us were in on it. I can't even find anyone that has heard any of this stuff about Microsoft or Dell other than the new poster. That post was picked up and pasted in other places I imagine but the guy said up front that he was new that day. It's just a very strange thing that could only have two possible causes. Either there is something actually going on with TMM in the form of some kind of deal, which would account for the large blocks starting Thursday afternoon in the form of insiders loading up, or it was a masterfully engineered hype job that I don't think any of us have seen yet. Nothing quite like this, on this scale, has happened in recent years that I can remember. And the big difference is that no one seems to know where it came from. I guess by the end of the day on Monday we will have a better sense of which scenario took or is taking place. From what I could see, the stock was trying to rally again at the end of the day Friday. Paul Goldstein, I hate to see you go. Good luck. shotgun johnny

To: Bruce Hoyt who wrote (14253)	5/9/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: Dennis P	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19109

And one more thing about Microsoft. Remember way back when I noticed that a lot of small companies stuck MFST at the end of their news releases so they would appear when someone checked the MFST ticker, say on Yahoo, when their actual news had nothing to do with M'soft? It was just that their product ran under Windows or had some other minor association with Windows. And I kept wondering online why Tom didn't do this, too, when we were about to send Elvis and TruDef on world tours. No one from the company ever addressed that question . . .Maybe he didn't want to tick somebody off. (Pure speculation on my part)

To: Bruce Hoyt who wrote (14253)	5/9/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Dennis P	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19109

Here's a story reached through CNN Interactive about MSFT purchasing technology from a company founded by former MSFT employees, Interactive Objects, which will allow users of handheld devices running Windows CE to play audio in Microsoft's Windows Streaming Media file format. There is an interesting comment from Suzanne Miller, marketing manager at Interactive Objects, in the middle of the article: (I've added the bold) The player initially supported the MP3 compression technology for downloading music from the Web, Miller said, adding that she couldn't discuss the company's MP3 development plans. "There will be no development on MP3 with Microsoft, but that's not to say that we won't do development work with other people" on MP3, she said. She's talking about Interactive Objects' future with MP3, but one could infer that MSFT has little interest in further work on MP3. The article continues: Meanwhile, under the ongoing contract, Interactive Objects will work with Microsoft to develop Windows desktop utilities, including Windows Media Rights Manager, that enable users to manage audio libraries between PCs and portable devices. Users connect their portable devices to a docking station that connects to their PC and use their utilities to manage and encode their audio files on the PC, explained Miller. Encryption technologies will allow users to bundle together different audio files for playing on their portable devices without violating copyright protection, she said. This is, of course, all speculation on my part, and TMM Inc. may play no part in any of this. But, it's food for thought as we try to understand how the technology TMMI has fits into the current move towards combining the music/video industries and the internet. idg.net