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To: chris431 who wrote (56931)	5/30/2000 2:05:00 PM
From: Wolff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

The funniest thing is the people on Silicon Investor, its like a cheering section of 500 people in a football stadium that seats 65,000....sure 500 is a solid size group, but to think that it changes the outcome significantly by posting critical views about companies on the Message Boards is laughable. 500 vs the 65K come on lets get real. Somehow I believe that it the content of the message that is important, and has little to do with whether it was communicated on SI or not. If a company is losing its contract with its customer which is 75% of there current business, the fact that if blasted around SI has little effect on the stock. The loss of 75% does though, I suppose its a question of efficient flows of information. So why do longs or shorts post on SI? That's the obvious question. Well we are the active talkers already. In every class I have ever had there was 35 people that said nothing, and 5 people that interacted with the discussion. SI is filled up with those 5 people, many times over. We talk stocks because we inclined to talk stocks. Now we have people wondering why a post is made. As if a post is a rare thing that should be held, and used sparingly. Of course they make a point to post a question why a post was made and reply to each response. Soon enough a thread pops up with the topic of if we should post. Irony But it gets worse, we know have groups of people posting that other should not be posting, by posting to new threads asking why others are posting. In the playground of above the belt real world manners, there are still the children that need to say, I am telling, I am telling. To do this? You guessed it, they post. --------- Christopher, BTW: I actually started writing an blurb on Shorting by relating it to Supply and Demand analysis. After seeing more of this stuff, and your posting, I am holding off till I have a bit more time. Right now, I have inserted the Costello Pump as the triggering event, and I want to do it right.