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To: The Prophet who wrote (14332)	8/27/2000 12:52:32 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Prophet, Sorry about that. I feared it would come across authoritarian. I didn't mean anything by it. I meant it as a general suggestion only. As you implied, the rules against selective disclosure probably cover us in our posts, in addition to our sources. I would just hate to see someone get reprimanded for offering something which wasn't totally along party lines because the boss was out of the office that day. Having said that, most SNDK executives sending personal e-mail replies to shareholders via SanDisk IR probably assume there is a high likelihood that the information will be shared publicly. I will admit that I fall closer along authoritarian than libertarian lines, however I still feel that there is a degree of (unspoken and unregulated) confidentiality that exists when e-mail is shared between individuals. (Perhaps this dates back to the olden days when people communicated via formal written correspondences beginning with Dear "X" and ending in Sincerely "Y".) As you said, traffic between individuals and public companies is a different story. FWIW, I will tell you that most of my deeply probing e-mails to SanDisk go unanswered (while more innocuous questions are answered in a timely fashion). Ausdauer