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To: Dale Baker who wrote (21183)	10/2/2000 3:38:08 AM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

But Dale, you must concede that you reopened the theme by posting an issue (the fraudulent promotion) with a clear connection to the anonymity theme. And you threw out the baby with the bath, again. My opinion is: Using a full name on the internet is like having a sticker with your name placed on your jacket in real live. I can not imagine that this was necessary either. If it ever was, it would have been introduced several decenniums earlier. For the population, an id card is sufficient (which has to be shown on demand - in accidents or during an arrest...). Persons with a function (like policemen, or a web admin/security person) might indeed better carry his name but only for that purpose. Gullibility of investors won't decrease a cent when the anonymity is abolished. Freaked analysts with real names are also followed by the sheep....I would say that the issue (fraud) is a serious one, but the cure you proposed doesn't do any good. Nuff said.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (21183)	10/2/2000 3:46:28 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 118717

Sorry 'Dale', but imho that's not the way it was - " a story where anonymity had taken in more gullible "investors"" Quite rightly you put quote marks around the word 'investors', so clearly you recognise that they were idiots, taken in by their own credulity ... what does anonymity matter anyway, some comments make sense and some don't, regardless of the spelling of the poster's login ... we are all one hundred per cent responsible for our own trading decisions, and face it - some people just don't deserve to breathe air much less hang onto their money if they're so freakin stupid as to buy at market some PoS they've heard about on Yahoo .... the share market is about allocation of capital, in all respects it is a darwinian process, this is healthy in that only the survivors live to breed young. You know, my biggest loss in the market ever bar none was in a PoS called William Resources, wim.to, it was ballyhooed by an anal type working for an outfit that is now swallowed up by Merrill Lynch, he posted under his 'real name' ... and guess what, they were the underwriters for the copious floating of common and the convertible debs which helped sink the PoS in the end, both .... but they are without fault - the fault was mine entirely, i wasn't paying attention to detail so i lost money, end of story. Well maybe not end of story ... if he had posted under 'anal1scamaday' or some such login i would have been less likely to listen to him .... so how's this for a theory - it should be made illegal to post any comment on any stock under one's 'real name' or anything even vaguely suggesting that it might be one's 'real name'? .... mighta saved me a chunk, as i would have been more inclined to, as they say on the crapstock threads, 'do my own dd' ... but really do it. If it went the other way i could make up a 'real name' real fast ... how about Pferd Cheval Caballo III? -g-