RE: @home to buy excite...

Stefan Savage (savage@cs.washington.edu)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:21:42 -0800

After talking to Bershad... its not clear that you want it.

He's seeing all of his packets to UW go by way of California and lots of
then get lost.

- Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Voelker [mailto:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:20 AM
To: savage@cs.washington.edu
Cc: syn@cs.washington.edu
Subject: RE: @home to buy excite...

when Detour buys @Home, can you finally get service to my apartment?

-geoff

Stefan Savage writes:
> Since its well established that the market cap of an Internet stock is
> inversely proportional to how much money they earn, I suggest we
> incorporate Detour, announce our intention to buy @Home, then IPO.
The
> resulting debt that we've taken on will swiftly bring our market cap
to
> a range where we can actually afford it.
>
> BTW, while I am joking, this isn't so far-fetched... the junk bond
> takeover folks did pretty much exactly this in the 80's.
>
> - Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Voelker [mailto:voelker@cs.washington.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:11 AM
> To: savage@cs.washington.edu
> Cc: syn@cs.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: @home to buy excite...
>
>
> UW people making money off of repackaging:
>
> Web Crawler --\
> ---- Excite --- @Home
> NetBot --/
>
> begs the question of who is going to buy @Home. Appliant :-?
>
> -geoff
>
> Stefan Savage writes:
> > http://www.techweb.com/news/story/TWB19990119S0003
> >
> > Raj may be bp's boss by the next retreat... ;-)
> >
> > - Stefan