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To: Pluvia who wrote (20)	5/25/2000 2:20:00 AM
From: Qone0	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 445

paint all shorts as "dirty guys". All shorts are dirty guys. They "BORROW" shares they do not own.(never having taken the risk to go long) And sell into the spike. They sell little old widowed lady`s stock from her retirement account. Stock from a young persons college fund. They steal the profit of the investment from these people by increasing the amount of capital required to hold the stock at a higher level. They hurt start up companies by keeping their stock price depressed. Which in turn causes massive dilution when the company needs some equity debt financing to fund their start up. Let me "borrow" your car and sell it. Keep the money. Buy the car back after it loses some of it value over a few years. Sound like a deal? That is what short sellers do with investors stock. They are evil people. Anything for a buck.