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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (605)	2/19/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) of 1327

USA Today 2/16/99 <snip> Popular investor Web sites also are taking measures to limit fraudulent stock touts. Silicon Investor, which puts up 15,000 new postings a day, employs four people to scan its site for potentially bogus promotions. Silicon Investor is able to detect identical messages, such as a spammer would send. The site's employees then question the sender, says John Keister, president of Go2Net, which owns Silicon Investor. Keister also says the site doesn't attract the usual array of con artists because it charges a one-time $200 subscription fee and keeps records of all online aliases used on the site. <snip> usatoday.com - Jeff

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