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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?

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To: David A. Lethe who wrote (3564)9/14/1996 11:40:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley   of 42771
 
<Mr. Tang. I looked at the company, products, and competition objectively, from the standpoint of somebody with many years experience in this industry. I have been in the computer/networking business since '81, and have worked for small to large companies, have lectured, been published, trained resellers, been National UNIX tech support manager for a Fortune 1000 company, Regional Sales manager, exhibited at Comdex, and so on...

The only proof that I was right and you are wrong is the current stock price. It went from $17 to $10. Now please get off my back.>

Dave,
This was really a pompous post on your part. You position yourself as some sort of seer regarding tech stocks and this stock in particular. It certainly is easy to write a post like the above looking backward and it certainly makes you look smart. It is much harder to actually make a purchase and then make profit from it, so why would you be so smart and pompous in responding to Mr. Tang?

A good example that you are not as all-seeing and all-knowing in tech stocks as you would have us believe is the two lots of GIFT you actually purchased from Quick & Reilly on May 6th and May 7th. Must have been trading at around 9 or 10 that day. Closed Friday at what, $2.50 ? You were actually touting the stock on the GIFT board in early May and now it is $2.50. What does that say about your self-described acumen. I've always taken anything you have said here with a few hundred grains of salt because of this, even though I have certainly never called attention to it until now. The reason I haven't is that I know we have all made mistakes in the investing game, but you are starting to sound like Barry Nance, to wit-
1) you are not invested in this stock, it is very easy to take cheap, backward looking shots and have 10/10 hindsight
2) you are not the all-knowing, omnipotent, source on tech stocks that you try to position yourself as (as evidenced by GIFT, I'm sure there are others)
3) you were insulting to someone who is invested and honestly trying to make a few dollars here (Mr Tang), like most who read this board

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