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To: re3 who wrote (104089)	5/26/2000 12:52:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>>yeah, ok, wh, and you never replied to me when i asked you if you dealt with si about it. why haven't you >>contacted si if you feel harassed? What do you think? Of course I did. Right at the top. Several people (including me) did. SI's solution was moderated threads. >>but who in the heck is gonna go back and try to decipher what happened If you chose not to examine the record (including your admonishments to HJ during that period) that's your choice, but it doesn't change what happened. >>so how the hell do i know if his record is any good? I doesn't matter whether Mark's record is good or not. Everyone's record is here to see by the comments they make. Maybe it's a personal values thing, but there is no need to attack someone who hasn't attacked first. Don't you see that? Would you like HJ doing it to you? HJ attacks, then retreats into the bushes. He doesn't stand up afterward. >> and wh, far too many people fade the hell away around here when their picks start to go south. I probably have the most public trading history around. My portfolio has been updated with changes (even with weightings until space ran out) except while I stopped posting because this thread got acrimonious. All sorts of characters came out of the woodwork hurling school-yard insults, rarely about investing. It was like venting frustration for not having made it to begin with. I certainly haven't faded. I could have told you all I sold. I could dodge and revise. I told you my strategy is buy and hold now. Poor timing to change to it, I admit, but that doesn't change validity of the strategy, and I have stayed the course. Last year HJ told me to "fuck off" when I said I traded out of the market when I felt it had become dangerous. This year his campaign revolves around me holding on. You have seen him recounting purchases I made this winter...but you won't see him publish any purchases of a long list of companies I brought to this thread for the first time, unless, of course they're embarrasing. I brought more fresh ideas (and for a long while intermediate timing decisions) here than anyone, and even net of this correction they made me and others a ton of money. Maybe you haven't paid attention, but one else comes close. The market will prove which strategy wins, but I don't think being singled out to endure insult after insult from HJ Morris should come with participating on SI. I asked him what his problem was when he first started attacking, and he said, "The problem is you." That was helpful. Then it was "King William", or the "Pied Piper", or whatever else. I have my theories on this, but whatever his problem is he should stop. HJ doesn't have to deal with me any longer, but he keeps it up nonetheless. Maybe you think him entertaining. I don't find him entertaining, nor helpful. Then name-calling Gene Kearney, one of the best minds and the best investor I have found on SI, an "idiot" is beyond ridiculous, and that's why I'm back today. HJ Morris can't carry Gene Kearney's bags, let alone offer anything better. HJ Morris is a weather vane. If banks are up he owns banks, or retailers, or oil stocks, or palladium futures, or whatever the flavor of the day is. As him for a disciplined view and he chokes. Since I'm here and going on and on, one last suggestion to the Amazon thread inhabitants. Don't take market moves so seriously. Be alert to buying great young companies, and you'll never be late. The war baby echo is entering the economy and is heating it up some, but it won't be anything like the 70's. Relax. Buy some pieces of your future today and let them bring you prosperity.