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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 478.53-1.0%Dec 12 9:30 AM EST

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To: Raymond James Norris who wrote (21710)4/27/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
Mr. Raymond James Norris...

You quote me:

<<For those that are not knowledgeable/interested in TA - you site offers nothing they can't get elswhere.>>

And you respond to my quote with:

<<Please enlighten me of a site that offers charts as well as analysis.>>

you claim to provide both Fundamental and Technical analysis at your site (this is the claim you made in your first post). I looked at your Fundamental analysis section. Other than one sentence about how MSFT is a monopoly and one sentence about how MSFT deserves a high p/e you have two tables - showing revenues for a few past quarters, and earnings per share. Sorry, if I'm underwhelmed. **My point was, as if it's not plain enough**, that for those who have no interest in TA at all, but only in FA, the FA part of your sight offers nothing they can't get just about anywhere. What insights do you offer in your FA that distinguishes it from even the most rudimentary article in any financial publication? Why is this point even in dispute? I mean the FA section is utterly pathetic - what would you like me to highlight... which of the literally two sentences and which of the two tables? Is this data hard to come by?

I don't want to get into a long debate about TA, but again, indisputably, for anyone who has even a passing knowledge of TA - what does your site offer that can't be had elswhere? It certainly is not more comprehensive (never mind the "obscure" indicators), so why your site?

<<For something that's free, you're rather insulting. I'm not charging anything for what I post.>>

Just because something is free doesn't make it desirable. I can get a boxfull of spam e-mail for free too. You don't charge? Hardly surprising - who'd pay?

You are not earning any money from the site. Most of these sites don't. Their creators spam them all over cyberspace, hoping to troll up enough hits, to one day get advertising revenue. Few succeed, but many try. Not making money at this stage, is hardly proof of lack of mercantile intentions.

Surely you are aware of this phenomenon? Surely you've seen these links to various sites provided over many message boards?

So how do we know you are doing it "just for the enjoyment", and at the "request" of a MSFT holder?

Well, the answer is quite simple - you are spamming your site to multiple boards - there's virtually exactly the same message, with your link on the AMZN board. And the THQI board. And the PFE board. And the NITE board. And the CMGI board.

I presume that's all at the behest of shareholders of the companies on those unfortunate boards? Just like you claim for MSFT?

Yes, as soon as somebody believes that, I have the Brooklyn Bridge for sale. Just how stupid do you think people are?

You are pushing your site - pure and simple. I've seen it before - if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck. This turkey is SPAM, nothing less, nothing more - all your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

No, MR. Raymond James Norris - I don't need you to tell me to read TA books. What I'd like to tell you is that many of us here on SI are allergic to SPAM - this is not the forum for anyone's enterpreneunial zeal. Save that for the Yahoo boards. We pay here to keep these boards free from such activity. And you can masquerade as anything you want - we can spot it a mile away. Nice try.

Have a nice day.

"Not in the BS buying mode" yours,

Morgan
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