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To: Lone Star who wrote (2182)	5/19/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3076

If I may tread ever so lightly across the temporary foot traffic bridge you've extended... FWIW---it is MY experience in other [read this to be foreign] markets and other times that obfuscating press releases such as we are both referring to in this particular instance [ENEL deal] *can* result from: internal pressure from those in the know, or pressure from those observing, regulatory types [either geographical jurisdiction] who have received external inquiries of some nature that raise the "level of scrutiny/interest" which result in the observed company producing these type of half-baked <---my descriptive [your words: "poorly worded"] utterances in the resulting attempt to comply with some type of "unofficial request" by officials who have gotten wind of something. I find that correlation between my prior experiences with other stocks in other markets in prior times, *and* the quick, almost IMMEDIATE gloating public post on this thread [Wm Peavey] about this ENEL financing announcement being necessary, in this particular wording and timing to prevent news leakage of some type... ...these two events are curiously hooked together in my mind. I wonder if we will ever know. Just food for thought. Now, I'll go back across the bridge...