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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fuzzymath who wrote (24008)	12/4/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Fuzzymath: No one objects if you have something of substance to contribute or discuss, questions to raise, etc. However, with the exception of a single element, you left the 'footprint' of a professional spammer with your first post. A spammer typically posts the exact same message to several security-specific threads, changing at most a couple of words and often no words other than the stock symbol itself. The message always is, or at least contains, some hype for a commercial website. That's what you posted. All that prevented an on-the-spot spam conviction in your case is that spammers, at least on SI, usually join within a day or two of their series of identical posts. If I had seen that in your profile, I would have called the nuns on you immediately. Since you are a member of several years' standing, I didn't. I was a little surprised nobody else did. If your primary motivation is selling securities analysis for money, your pitches don't belong on this thread and you are in fact a spammer. If your primary motivation is discussing SUNW (even in a light-hearted way) for the mutual benefit of all thread participants, that's great, but in that case your posts should contain some pertinent information or analysis about SUNW rather than just a statement that you like the stock and a link to your web site. That holds for every SI thread you post on. People pay to belong to SI specifically because discussion threads are kept from becoming an advertising medium. Believe it or not, I'm not trying to give you a hard time; just telling you in a friendly way my view of what the protocols are, which view is I suspect shared by most of the other participants. Regards, --QwikSand