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To: HubTech who wrote (3945)	3/6/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: Ward Nicholson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4467

Conspiracy Theory: I'm beginning to think this is a massive conspiracy. The full-service borkers have been losing massive amounts of business to the discount borkers over the past few years. I think the full-service clowns have forged a monetary "relationship" with the discounters such that business will now be directed back to the full-service realm. I'm sure the government (KYC rule) and the TSE (inflating the TSE 300 index via NT and BCE) are involved somehow too. The old guys simply got tired of seeing less cash in their pockets and decided to screw the public over and set things back 15 years to the way they were. The climax of this whole charade will be when the markets go limit down and NOBODY can get through to a discount borker to make a trade because all systems will have melted down into a pure black cybervoid. BWTFDIK. I placed an order to buy CLT at $18.50 this morning when the price had dropped there. It took 40 minutes for the order to get approved. By the time it had, CLT was over $19. I can't believe how bad the service is. Just when you think it can't get any worse...I'm now expecting 60 minute delays in order approval in the coming days. How's this for an an analogy? Having to wait for one of these dorks to approve an order is like having to wait for a doctor to put on your condom before you can have sex. 8-[ WN

To: HubTech who wrote (3945)	3/6/2000 11:02:00 PM
From: StockPro	Respond to of 4467

Good point HubTech, but just imagine what would happen if they implemented your solution. The backlog as the "human" order processors (acting on the KYC rule) would probably increase at least ten-fold. Seeing as the "humans" can't keep up, their failure in addressing the hardware issue is obviously just a means of limiting the size of the "official backlog". Ward just complained about waiting 40 minutes for approval on an order. Can you imagine if ALL orders actually made it thru the servers --- he'd probably end up waiting 400 minutes for his order to be reviewed by the "humans".