NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Internet World draws a crowd as crediting woes plague MCI WorldCom.(Humor)(Column)

IF YOU COMPARED the stock market to a ship lately, it might be called the Titanic. Yet even in the wake of disaster, vendors and spenders alike showed up this year for Spring Internet World.

Under the pall of Los Angeles smog, the Internet faithful -- from those wearing pocket protectors to the terminally fashionable L.A. types -- were offering details of revised strategies and even launching new companies.

Randi stayed at home again.

"I can't take the pedicure pressure," she said, perhaps referring to the fashionable crowd. "All those strappy sandals," she added, as if that explained it all.

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