-geoff
Neal Cardwell writes:
>
> Ah, so since Geoff's so close to campus, all we really need is a blimp
> above Red Square.....
>
> neal
>
> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Stefan Savage wrote:
>
> > 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
> >