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To: Boplicity who wrote (143816)	10/5/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: TechMkt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Judging from RMBS' stock movement today, I would say it is probably true. Someone knows something. Feza

To: Boplicity who wrote (143816)	10/5/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 176387

Money Mag, "Insider's Guide to Message Boards" pathfinder.com Yahoo! Lay of the land: Watch your wallet here, because you're hanging out on the wrong side of the tracks, and there's not a cop in sight. This is where an engineer posted a link to a phony Bloomberg story in April announcing a buy-out of PairGain Technologies, sending its stock soaring before the fraud was unveiled. Yahoo! won't discuss usage statistics, but by sheer volume it is easily the most popular site (Yahoo!'s Amazon board, for example, attracted 1,176 messages on one randomly selected day, compared with 220 at SI's Amazon board). More is not more. Unless you're 11 years old, you will quickly tire of the you-suck-no-you-suck banter that most often passes for investment conversation. Highlights: There aren't any. What with thousands of threads on penny stocks and spurious trading systems, the only reason to stick around is to start your own discussion through the Yahoo! clubs feature and rigorously limit access. Fitting in: Are you sure you want to? People do get booted for foul or threatening language, but troublemakers can simply create new aliases and log right back on. Save yourself some grief, and hail a cab back to the nicer parts of town.

To: Boplicity who wrote (143816)	10/5/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 176387

More "Insider's Guide to Message Boards" (SI) pathfinder.com <g>I hi-lited a couple interesting comments.> Silicon Investor (www.techstocks.com) Lay of the land: Nicknamed SI by its users, Silicon Investor is the upscale neighborhood in town, attracting a high percentage of advanced investors and active traders. Anyone can read the messages for free, but to post your own thoughts you have to pay ($200 lifetime, $60 half-year). The fee may give SI an elitist air, but it's just steep enough to deter the less serious from joining, and many discussion threads are earnest indeed. "Stocks go down ultimately for fundamental reasons," writes dppl, the founder of the popular Technical Analysis for Shorts and Longs thread. "But these reasons are often foreshadowed by technical indications [that] can show the writing on the wall before the wall is even visible." Highlights: Not surprisingly, considering the site's address, tech discussions are by far the most popular forums. Some, like Dell, Intel and Compaq, have attained near legendary status, thanks to the variety and intelligence of their posts. But there are also good forums that are not focused on individual stocks, such as Market Gems, with its bent toward short-term trading, or Ask Michael Burke, where a guy named, yep, Michael Burke, opines on subjects ranging from economics to John Travolta. Fitting in: Like a gated community, SI quickly escorts rule breakers out of town. Those who violate the site's hallowed Terms of Use by posting advertisements or abusive or obscene comments get booted without a refund. It's probably no accident, then, that unlike at most message sites, many participants here feel comfortable enough to post under their real names rather than kooky handles. Warning: Even the best neighborhoods have back alleys. You should avoid the $5-and-under forums not only here but wherever you travel, since those areas tend to attract users more interested in pumping stocks than analyzing them.