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To: CatLady who wrote (333)	2/7/2001 10:59:03 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) of 808

WSJ has picked up on the brouhaha caused by INSP's latest blunder. "Web Community Rallies Around Enforcer-SI Bob" Article by Peter Edmonston. Among the comments in the article: Coming just a week after Silicon Investor's longtime rival, Raging Bull, was sold for a paltry sum, Mr. Zumbrunnen's departure also provides more evidence that online investing communities -- which once seemed to embody the spirit of the Internet -- are now being viewed as albatrosses by profit-focused managers. John Graves, director of Internet technology research at SG Cowen Securities Corp., says he thinks Silicon Investor will be "stripped down," with the focus shifting from community-building to the licensing of discussion-board technology to third parties.

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