Levy, to the best of my knowledge I am not listed as an AAII member, since I declined to join them and never posted there. They found me e-mail address in the SI Personal Profiles and contacted me directly. Here is the exact message, dated 5/21/99 at 4:23 PM:
Dear Sleeper:
Hi, I'm Laurie Gordon, Executive Editor of Individual Investor Online (http://www.iionline.com). The staff at Individual Investor has read many of your posts on Silicon Investor's ATHM message board and we're very impressed with your comments.
I'd like to invite you to share your thoughts with our community of serious investors on Individual Investor Online's message boards. Of course, I'm not asking you to stop posting on Silicon Investor, but we'd love for you to share your smart ideas with our community.
Check us out. I think you'll agree that we have one of the best, free sites on the Web for the individual investor, with research, analysis, commentary, financial news, fundamental data, investment tools and message boards. You'll find our pages load quickly and our message board features (with ignore buttons and discussion threads) are unparalleled.
Our goal is to provide our community of users with high quality message boards. We know you can add to that quality -- you're good! We welcome your participation!
In fact, we think you'll add so much to our community, that we'll send you a really cool baseball hat just for posting.
Thanks for your time. Hope to see you on IIOnline!
Regards,
Laurie iionline.com
So, as you can see, AAII is very aware of the happenings here at SI.
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