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To: mr.mark who wrote (11111)	8/21/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

[Nice grub.] . . . . The saga continues. . . . . . Message 11002426 techstocks.com Message 11026621 nytimes.com [only takes a second to register. . .worthwhile] clearstation.com This continues the story started several days ago. Please. . I am not bashing SI, by telling this story of two leaders here. I have always been outspoken on injustice at any level. So let's just take it at face value. It is true that I am moving to another message board soon, but that should not become a blind-fold nor a sock to keep me from seeing or speaking out. Since day one, I have never stayed quiet about such ordeals and am not about to start now. With regard to the above posts, I am amazed that such "duels" still go on in 1999. . . and between two respected leaders, both with large followings of traders, that pay literally millions of dollars per year for these leaders stock picks. . .both of which play both long and short. Frankly, I wish the two would just meet behind the gymnasium after class and duke it out. And who really wins in the end? And who loses? In such a high-stakes chess game as this is turning out to be, surely many pawns will be sacrificed. The prize? Bragging rights. . . nothing more. With the current technology, real-time information and speed of communications we finally have the power to level the playing field. As individual investors, we could stick it to the big players that stick it to us daily. . . if we were to pool our talents. Or we could just stay on our own turf and make money and live happily ever after. But I don't take well to CANNIBALIZING a 'flock', whether it be yours or someone elses. As individual online traders, we have enough natural predators on the street. We should not need to feed off of one another. And leaders should protect . . . not lead into harms way. Many ask why this behavior persists. I cannot explain the sociological source or root cause. Perhaps there is a sociologist amongst us that can. But in every city in America, we have gangs and gang wars. Similar personality types, races or just those from the same geographic location, congregate forming a gang of sorts. Eventually one gang crosses paths with another. What happens next is by CHOICE. Unfortunately, the choice is usually to fight. I was really hoping that once these particular clashing personality types went completely private on their own websites, the wars and attacks would subside. . .taken over by the business of making money. I was wrong. Now the gangs merely have their own clubhouse. Rande Is