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Technology Stocks : Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
HPQ 24.73-2.2%3:59 PM EST

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To: The Duke of URLĀ© who wrote (3903)11/19/2005 12:41:52 PM
From: Lynn   of 4345
 
I basically agree with your statements, Duke, but in regards to this:

"Second, the CPQ people were not especially happy with the merger.

Pick any date before the merger announcement was made and the CPQ thread had a LOT of people posting.

Randomly picking two pre-merger announcement dates, here's one in March 2000:

Subject 2352

And a day in May of 1998:

Subject 2352

Third, the dot com bomb in general blew out a lot or regular people and lost them a lot of money, which perforce made them less desirous of posting anywhere.

Very, very true. There are people I gave favorite marks for who have not posted in a few years. A few I have checked do continue to make postings here, but on non-stock threads.
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