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To: HairBall who wrote (57159)	7/26/2000 9:25:35 AM
From: UnBelievable	Respond to of 99985

My Perspective Is Each Thread Has A Place I have been concerned about the falloff in participation on MDD. In the past it was one of the threads that I found was most useful in providing a variety of thoughtful analysis and information. The point of my thread was to encourage the continued participation of posters. I think The CLOWN FREE ZONE has provided me with a forum to express some of my personal feelings about the economy and the markets in less structured forms. I have Stock Attack bookmarked and it provides yet another resource. In some way one is a library the other a pub. My perspective is one should not enter a pub and expect people to act like they are in the library nor should they enter a library and act like they are in a pub. While I think the moderated feature is good, people should be moderated based on what they do on the thread, not what they believe or what they may do on other threads. I also think that contributors should know who is being prevented from posting. Otherwise it is not possible to know why a person's posts are not appearing. Just as an example, I had no way of knowing that your own recent absence from MDD was related to an SI decision, rather than reflected your own choice. As in any situation I have experienced with people, we tend to like some, dislike otheres, and all the combinations. I don't know that a sense of the balance of fault can ever be determined and do not choose to either review the background or reach a judgement. I hope that you choose to continue to contribute to MDD, would prefer if the number of exclusions were limited and publically available for all threads, and further should be based on violations of the standards on the thread, on the thread, and should, except with the case of habitually violators be for limited periods of time. I have to get back to my prep, but will respond to other issues which you might feel need to be addressed in the evening.

To: HairBall who wrote (57159)	7/26/2000 9:54:53 AM
From: John Madarasz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 99985

semi O/T FWIW In all seriousness, the post count does drop off on this thread due to a prevailing market complacency, it's a fact. I have always thought it was funny LG how folks were never afraid to chime in on the "bearish" tone of the thread, or ridicule the direction analysis, yet here they would be, lurking, trying to get some sense of market direction. Interesting during the times of real fear during market downturns the sheep come pouring back in searching for answers to when the pain will end, counting on the great technical and fundamental information posted here by you and many of the other "regulars". They will be back, in fact I'm sure they never left... one thing that is always a constant here is integrity. I've always found that although some may ridicule, there always remains a respect for honesty and integrity, always. Regards, and good trading, John M. can't help but think that current VIX and RYDEX ratios are pointing towards a dip to the 3600 gap on the comp stockcharts.com[L,A]DACLYYMY[DB][PB50!B200!D20,2!F][VC60][IUB14!LG!LC20]