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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (1498)	5/20/1999 3:16:00 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

I saw a little blurb in Businessweek about a company called Rooftop--wireless net. This is about the only thing that has caught my attention lately in all this constant barrage of internet hype. So I did a few quick keyword searches to see where I would be led. Eventually I worked my way over to a local communications company--Nextlink, it caught my eye because I've heard of this McCaw fellow etc etc. Anyway, it seems to me that it could be these CLECs that would be the ones to best take advantage of solutions like the rooftop internet radio. Right? Okay, so I'm kinda getting interested, but I check the stock--way up from last fall, negative book value, waaay negative earnings. This is pretty scary stuff. It will end badly. And NXLK actually seems to be a reasonable business. Imagine all the dot com's out there that will just fail for lack of any business.