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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (44169)	8/26/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: stockbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

You are no better than the Yahoo crowd. Posting this garbage causes panic selling because someone thinks you know something. So unless you can post something that supports your remarks shut up. I really believe you are trading both sides and now downward is where you want the stock to go.

To: Black-Scholes who wrote (44169)	8/26/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: C. Niebucc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Careful where you put yer.... posts. Syphilis outbreak traced to chat room By Reuters Special to CNET News.com August 26, 1999, 8:15 a.m. PT SAN FRANCISCO--Health officials in San Francisco tracking an outbreak of syphilis have discovered that the cases have a cyberspace connection: an Internet chat room. Jeffrey Klausner, director of the sexually transmitted disease unit at the San Francisco Department of Health, said that investigators quizzing the last seven homosexual men reporting syphilis infections were surprised to find that all seven found their most recent sexual contacts through a chat room on America Online: "SFM4M," or San Francisco Men-For-Men. "The challenge for us has been to contact, notify, and inform individuals [when] we only have their Internet screen handles," Klausner said Monday. AOL declined to alter its privacy policy and reveal the identities of the chat room regulars, but it did put Klausner in touch with PlanetOut, an online gay and lesbian community. "The health department did contact us looking for advice on how to use the online medium to deal with this public health issue," said Rich D'Amato, an AOL spokesman. PlanetOut staff spent two weeks visiting the chat room and warning users about the outbreak, urging them to take syphilis tests and to practice safe sex. While the chatters' anonymity has been protected, officials hope they have got the message. Klausner said that the experience has been an eye-opener, and that future public health campaigns will certainly take into account the growing role the Internet plays in human relationships. "We've learned that Internet contacts are an important sexual network," he told the San Francisco Examiner on Monday. Story Copyright ¸ 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. See Story in Context