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To: Scott Lux who wrote (14146)	1/30/2001 8:16:04 AM
From: TFF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32883

Scott what is SI's policy in deleting old threads without recent posts? What criteria do you use? Thanks

To: Scott Lux who wrote (14146)	1/31/2001 9:10:07 PM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32883

Snott Lux, REMOVE me from the "Dear Silicon Investor Members" list. I am not interested in a "Stock-Picking Challenge! " BTW, i'm one of those pesky "Grandfathered Members." have day, Teddy Wednesday, January 31, 2001 7:38 PM ET From: Silicon Investor Dear Silicon Investor Members, Now is your last chance to participate in our Stock-Picking Challenge! To make sure you don’t miss out on any of the excitement, including a chance to win some great cash prizes, post your entry at Subject 50656 before 11:59 p.m. EST tonight (1/31/01). We’ve posted a list of some common questions we’ve received along with their answers. Please continue to post additional questions to the Stock-Picking Challenge thread. After the market closes tomorrow, please set up your public portfolio at siliconinvestor.com and name the portfolio with your alias. Don’t forget that if your friend or family member would like to enter, today is the last day to give them a complimentary Premium Membership. Just have them go through the registration process and get a free Basic Membership at siliconinvestor.com. Then have that person send you their Username they selected when they registered. Reply to this Private Message (PM) with the Username your friend or family member selected, and we will set up their complimentary lifetime membership and send you a confirmation. Their Premium Membership will be activated immediately so they can start posting right away. FAQ Q: Which stocks are eligible? A: The stock must be listed on the NASDAQ, AMEX, NYSE or OTC:BB. Mutual funds (both closed ended, open ended, and exchange traded funds such as DIAMONDS and SPDRs) are not eligible. Q: Do I have to choose 5 Stocks? A: Yes. You must select 5 stocks of 100 shares each. Q: How will the winners be determined? A: The winners will be determined on or about March 2, 2001, by tabulating the top ten winners and the last place winner based on overall percentage returns. Q: What if there is a tie? A: We will award duplicate prizes. Q: Do I need to set up a public portfolio? A: Yes. After the close of the market on February 1, please create a public portfolio for your 5 stock picks. Make sure you enter 100 shares per stock and that you use the market open price. You can do this by going to siliconinvestor.com. Make sure to name the portfolio after your alias. Once you have created your portfolio, click the “share with others” link to make it a public portfolio. Please post the URL of your portfolio to the Stock-Picking Challenge thread. If you have any additional questions, please post them to Scott Lux on the Stock-Picking Challenge Thread. Good luck! The Silicon Investor Team Reply \| Delete \| File Note: Guess what: If you guessed "The unwanted message will remain in your "Inbox" until you reply, transfer or trash it," you were correct.

To: Scott Lux who wrote (14146)	2/1/2001 12:20:45 AM
From: straight life	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32883

Scott- When I "View Next 10 Messages", they invariably contain messages (many messages) from a person who I have on "ignore" (limtex), who posts incessantly, and who's a royal pain, he's like a black cloud of doom who somehow seems to follow me all over SI and make my life a living hell. ...ok I may have exaggerated that last part, but only a wee bit. Anyway, what good is ignore, since I have to view 10 at a time, (otherwise with my dial-up and SI's sometimes plodding speed, I'd be on the net all night??????????????? So can you please fix "ignore"? Thanks.

To: Scott Lux who wrote (14146)	2/1/2001 12:16:15 PM
From: Pirah Naman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32883

Scott: I'm sure you are very busy, but I would appreciate it if the ignore feature could be restored. Thank you for your efforts. - Pirah

To: Scott Lux who wrote (14146)	2/2/2001 10:23:40 AM
From: vagabond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32883

Scott/Bob -- a slightly different complaint re fonts... In checking this thread, I see that most people's complaints involve feeling that the new (un-customizable) fonts are too BIG on their screens. Well, I actually have the opposite problem -- even though it obviously stems from the same software/programming mess-up at SI's end. So I wanted to point it out, for another perspective... Because of vision-problems AND simple personal preference, in the past I'd always chosen to have SI posts display on my screen in the "Larger" font option available in Internet Explorer -- which had the effect not-only of simply of increasing the text-size, but also giving it a semi-bold appearance that I found MUCH easier to read (and that IE option affects only the specific window being-viewed -- unlike IE's "Accessibility" option, which affects the appearance of ALL windows and is therefore an impractical alternative when SI is the ONLY site that requires a font-change). With SI's "new" font-system, however, the IE text-size options have no effect -- so I am now forced to squint to read the posts (when you first instituted the new fonts, for about a week this "disabling" of the IE size-options occurred only when displaying posts in the 10-per-page format -- but NOW, it's also the case when displaying posts individually as well). Whether one finds the new fonts too big OR too small, the point obviously is that the new system is a BAD idea simply because it removes a user's ability to customize the text according to his/her own needs or preferences -- and as a "service-sector" company, whose entire purpose is to offer its users important text-based information, I'd think that SI's main concern should be to give those users the greatest possible flexibility rather than limiting their choices... So, can we simply get things back to the way they WERE before all these problems began?... Thanks, Vagabond