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To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: Craig Rogers	Respond to of 29970

This stock is oversold on high volume and will bounce tomorrow. Look at the chart. See it!!! Craig

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Make it three Ed, I had one of these high flying crazy stocks once before....held on the long side for six-seven years, only tried to time it once or twice by trading with half my shares, added a few percentage points, but lost a lot of sleep. Mostly I just stopped watching the tape when it was down. Some of the times it corrected 35% off the high. It was sure hard to hold onto....it was 70% of my portfolio at times. Now what was that crazy stock? Oh yeah, I remember now... Intel Looking back I feel pretty good about that stock. I'm betting that I'll look back six years from now and feeling pretty good about ATHM and GNET. Feel pretty lucky to be here in the beginning.

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: KW Wingman	Respond to of 29970

I am still onboard the ATHM train. We have been taking the scenic loop trip revisiting our past travel on the fast track. Don't worry the train is going to the same destination in either case. With the value of hindsight, many of us now wish we would have sold a few days ago so that we could buy back now. IMO it is NOW a good time to at least consider buying more shares. Consider buying when you want to sell because of your recent losses, consider selling when you feel like buying more because of your recent gains in a stock. I know this is not exactly Ahhaha's opinion but ... what the heck, lets consider it anyway. Hope we both have a nicer day tomorrow, Wingman

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: BrooklynDave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Thread. i am an @home subscriber and temporarily a former share-owner. My opinions, for what they might be worth, are that initially when the rumors of TJ stepping down in favor of Bell caused uncertainty in the market place causing ATHM shares to descend gradually. As the story came about of TJ's push for content vs new subscribers, it became evident (to me) that investors now wanted Bell and accepted sacrificing TJ for the long term good health of the company. Now with today's announcement that Bell will be named President and TJ remaining as CEO high anxiety and panic has attacked the share-price as investors, big and small, raced to the exits. I don't expect the damage done by these events to go away quickly. ANY/ALL COMMENTS WELCOME. This is JMO. Dave

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 10:54:00 PM
From: Bretsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Hey Educator, I'm still ATHM long, just been a lurking manic depressent lately. I just wish I knew when to add shares !! Best Regards, Bretsky

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/24/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: High Plains Drifter	Respond to of 29970

Who's selling? I read a lot of the annual report and sent in my proxy vote. The company is aware of the possible problems that can be encountered along the way but they seem really poised to compete. I like what I read. This fall makes investing seem like gambling but I'm long this stock too. OT Anybody have opinion on ADCT? Involved in broadband too. Not a real active thread. HP

To: Educator who wrote (9809)	5/25/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 29970

WorldGate shares rise after patent approval NEW YORK, May 24 (Reuters) - Shares of WorldGate Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:WGAT - news) rose 19 percent Monday after the company said it received government patent approval for its technology linking television shows to related Web sites. Bensalem, Pa.-based WorldGate, which provides Internet links to cable television customers using conventional set-top boxes, said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved all 62 claims of its application to patent ''Channel HyperLinking'' technology. ''It provides broad patent coverage of the whole issue of linking television to Internet on a real-time basis,'' Hal Krisbergh, WorldGate's chairman and chief executive, told Reuters. The shares rose $6.0625 to $38.625 on Monday on the Nasdaq stock exchange, at more than twice average volume. In April, the company had its initial public offering at $21 a share. Although giants like AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T - news) plan to roll out specialized set-top boxes offering a mix of Internet, television and other services, WorldGate has already begun to deploy interactive Internet TV using the latest generation of regular cable-boxes. To provide speedy Web access through cable boxes that have next to no processing power, WorldGate installs computers at cable offices with enough punch to make up for that weakness. That allows the company to offer Internet speeds four times faster than a 28.8 modem with the current cable boxes, and 900 times faster with the newer, digital boxes, in a service costing less than $12 a month with no large up-front costs to consumers. WorldGate also has a patent application pending on this aspect of its business, Krisbergh said. Krisbergh hopes that AT&T and other big cable companies will be customers, choosing WorldGate as the interactive face of their service. Possible competitors include companies like Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) WebTV, which might want to put its own browser on the TV screen. Internet service providers like AtHome Corp. (Nasdaq:ATHM - news) that use cable modems are currently used more on PCs than television screens, but could become competitors in the long run. ''The big guys are coming,'' Krisbergh said, which is why WorldGate is seeking patent protection for its ideas. WorldGate's biggest cable partner right now is Charter Communications, which is controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Charter began rolling out WorldGate's service to consumers in January, and the company currently can offer the service to about 500,000 homes. In the first quarter, WorldGate had revenues of only $549,000, up 17 percent over the fourth quarter, and lost $8.3 million, or 93 cents a share. Krisbergh, the former head of General Instrument Corp. (NYSE:GIC - news) cable equipment operations, said the company is working with more than 70 television network partners, including ABC, CNN and MTV, to provide Web links from their programming