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To: Suzanne Newsome who wrote (34154)	8/28/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: Zbyte	Respond to of 44908

Start a New Subject and call it Bashers' Hall of Fame

To: Suzanne Newsome who wrote (34154)	8/29/1999 4:52:00 AM
From: Ditchdigger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44908

Can anyone post this original article? Excerpts from a post. Calling all cults: After reading this column's back-and-forth with IDT investors, California clinical psychologist Jerome Silverman wrote that he believes it's clear the IDT-iots "reflect an additional classic behavioral principle. This has to do with external support for one's pathological condition. If an individual with pathological ideation is surrounded by people who challenge the pathological position there will be a reasonable probability that the position will be re-evaluated, rejected and a healthier one put in place. "However if the pathological position has external supports -- people who similarly hold that position -- there is often very little chance to have that position re-evaluated, let alone having it modified in a healthier way. "This is why cults are so powerful an influence on their members. It seems that for many buying a stock is similar to joining a cult. Instead of being investors -- open, alert, considering all information concerning their holding -- they become cultists, cheering the stock in spite of negative data and wanting to kill the messenger who brought it. "They find cult mates on Internet message boards and in a kind of ritualistic behavior, post wishful predictions like 'up 10% by next month' or 'big takeover coming.' These posts have nothing to do with fact, but by posting them the action itself serves to reassure them and other cultists that all is well and that they have done something in the service of the cult -- e.g. the post and prediction. "This is similar to primitive peoples who during a drought do a rain dance. It gives them something to do to validate their beliefs and it reaffirms the cultist hope." Which is where the "springs eternal" comes in." Message 11097472

To: Suzanne Newsome who wrote (34154)	8/30/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44908

I could write a similar list of all the hypesters on this thread, but I have more important things to do. BTW, your assessment of my so-called "bashing" is not totally correct. There was a period when I actually thought this company might do something. However that was based on misinformation that the Signature deal would pay for TSIG's running costs by April of this year. This did not happen and now it looks like it will never happen. I have as much faith in your gross profit projections coming true as I have about the Signature "deal". BTW, Suzanne, since you are so fond of jumping on other people's cases, please get your facts about me straight or I might have to report you to SI for being inflammatory and confrontational.