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Pastimes : Bring Back SI Bob! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CatLady who wrote (333)	2/7/2001 10:59:03 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 808

WSJ has picked up on the brouhaha caused by INSP's latest blunder. "Web Community Rallies Around Enforcer-SI Bob" Article by Peter Edmonston. Among the comments in the article: Coming just a week after Silicon Investor's longtime rival, Raging Bull, was sold for a paltry sum, Mr. Zumbrunnen's departure also provides more evidence that online investing communities -- which once seemed to embody the spirit of the Internet -- are now being viewed as albatrosses by profit-focused managers. John Graves, director of Internet technology research at SG Cowen Securities Corp., says he thinks Silicon Investor will be "stripped down," with the focus shifting from community-building to the licensing of discussion-board technology to third parties.

To: CatLady who wrote (333)	2/8/2001 12:45:52 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 808

CatLady, I had saved the post earlier tonight. Great minds think alike, I guess. <g> I had also debated about whether or not to post the link, fearing for the original poster's legal safety. But then I realized that the post was already over 2 years old, and well beyond the time limits for a possible libel suit to be filed. Of course, I have no way of knowing one way or the other where the actual truth lies regarding the incident that the poster described. However, in his defense, I am not aware of his ever lying to me in the past, so I have no reason to doubt his veracity. It's one of those things we'll probably never know for sure. KJC