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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (6413)	8/15/2000 2:03:35 PM
From: swisstrader	Respond to of 17683

Haim...please, put down that crack pipe, you are starting to scare me...if you have a litigation lawyer advising you to sue CNBC on reporting CSCO earnings, I can save you some time and energy: just make out the check to YOUR LAWYER TODAY!!...he's as much a crackerhead as you are. Here are the facts: a) CNBC reported fact, b) even if CNBC had the story ALL wrong, they cannot be held liable for your trading woes or the actions of their viewers based on such reporting, c) your obsession with CSCO on this, the MDD, and the CSCO SI boards really leads one to conclude that you are/were short the stock. Here's a tiny little secret: each and every ding dong day, there is some bit of news reported by one news agency or another that is embellished, sugar coated, sensationalized and sometimes not 100% factual...may I simply suggest you and your lawyer friend file a class action suit against the media at large...you can then go on to suing the environment, all of Corporate America and perhaps Planet Earth.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (6413)	8/15/2000 9:45:52 PM
From: The Phoenix	Respond to of 17683

Haim, You are mis-informed and you continue to spread this mis-information and lack of desire to do a full dd all over SI. Message 14206870 Even CSCO indicated that the second set are THE ACTUAL ..... results in their opinion. Really? Where? Please provide a link that supports this comment. The fact is that Cisco has been reporting pro-forma forever in order to provide an accurate, apples to apples, quarter to quarter view of the results from operations. When you include aquisition costs (one time costs, goodwill, etc) AND income from investments is skews the ability to measure quarter on quarter changes. Without pro-forma data we would all be faced with figuring out the "Actual" earnings from operations. Instead Cisco does this for us with pro-forma data. As for CNBC. They are reporting the news. They reported accurately - that Cisco beat by a penny and blew away expectations on top line growth. THis is accurate... you may not like it but the reporting was accurate and to chastize these guys for this is inappropriate. That said CNBC does make mistakes but in this case you are the one that is out of line. Every fund manager, long term investor out there is looking at pro-forma... you can chose to ignore it but those are the FACT my good friend. (got it right Jorj?) OG