To: Ron Struthers who wrote (57418 ) 6/30/2001 12:55:36 AM From: d:oug Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116944 Question: Can the Duck Test be manipulated? If so, can itself be used to test for such manipulation? Here on this thread we all know, if but from memory when we joined, that if one earns a tax'able income from any source, that this person can not solicit on this thread such entity. We also all know that the world is not perfect, and can not sometimes fit such Rules & Regulations without causing a degradation in Goods & Services. Specific to here, this Silicon Investor, and particular to this gold price monitor thread, such laws tend to be self regulating in the sense that the Administration of this web site cannot monitor each and every post looking for violations, and will accept the fact that each thread has a safety feature build-in, that being that there will always exist memebers on each thread that will do that Call 911 to notify the Administartion of Silicon Investor that violations in their opinion have or may be occuring. Its a balancing act for both Silicon Investor and its members, as sometimes the quanity and quality of posts include what could be identified as clear cut violations have an element of severity small and/or innocent comparied to the helpfulness of what it delivers as in "what members wish to obtain" from others. Myself using the Duck Test on Claude's mention that he has written a piece included inside his pay-to-view newsletter where he predicts the price of gold to test $250 before any possible climb over $275-$290 lead me to sent to him using that e-mail address he supplied that was targeted towards his news letter to receive a free one time copy of his news letter was to me someone wishing to place information he has onto this thread for discussion without directly lessening the value of his newsletter to paying subscribers. Fine, I did ask for the free copy and after receiving it i will express my opinions about its content on this thread if i feel that any items are good for a better learning through discussions. Now i realize that Claude has to monitor his own posts, in that while at the same time being a public member on this Silicon Investor he wishes to give and receive through public posts information the same as most others do here. But Claude is head and shoulders above most all others here except for a few that also create that thing called a pay to view newsletter or Bob with his free web site to view for facts & information of a basic format that also contains advertisments, and lastly those few posters that do their own indepth study and analysis to rival those of a professional menu. Then there is old49error hacking her 4sale book using the pitch that You, Yes You can today obtain gold and Tomorrow sell it for ten times what it cost you. As if she is doing a public service announcemint to help the poor and needy and greedy. So now Ron, i ask you to use the Duck Test and without doing anything that has not already been done safety here on this thread, could you please respond using that method of Claude's to supply an e-mail address so that anyone may obtain information of an on topic gold price monitor usage with the attached Friends of Gold and Gata connection so that they can get both. Thanks. dougak "... to GATA supporters... ... from gold/resource/tech newsletter writer Ron Struthers, who will donate to GATA... "