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To: fyodor_ who wrote (37890)	4/30/2001 5:00:35 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Fyo, well said. EOM Andreas

To: fyodor_ who wrote (37890)	4/30/2001 5:04:13 PM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:<It would be naive to think this won't cause many to be reluctant of posting on those threads, especially if the opinions they wish to voice are contrary to the general thread.> Fyodor, As usual you make an excellent point. John mentions people who are reluctant to post here because of the "censorship" stigma but he isn't taking into account all of the productive knowledgable posters who would be turned off or turned away by a Yahoo type atmosphere, personally I would rather have the latter people here than the former. In fact I remember that shortly after this thread was formed there was a cambrian explosion of sorts and numerous new posters showed up. Maybe I need to go back and count them but I think that there were a very good number of new posters one after the other that started posting and I think that was partly because of the less hostile atmosphere and better signal to noise ratio. Epinephrine

To: fyodor_ who wrote (37890)	4/30/2001 5:50:55 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

fydor, My point on why Intel folks don't post on this thread isn't primarily censorship. I don't want to talk for anyone else, but I think most perceive that if you post anything positive about Intel, you are treated with the same hospitality as a rattlesnake. I've experienced it myself, trying to post what I thought was a neutral post, and then being attached be five or ten people, on and off the subject of the post, about what a miserable company Intel is. It's not so much censorship as it is that you just wear folks out. And I think part of that is caused by the clubyness of a moderated thread. Some of it by the ability to ban opposing views. If you think Intel investors are welcome, read back through today's posts. Most are about Intel, not AMD, and they are all critical (an understatement), many with bizarre speculation. (exception are some posts from Kash). Not that the Intel thread is tolerant of negative posts about Intel, but I think that the majority of posts are at least about Intel, and criticism of AMD is not as frequent or as vociferous. Today I made one post challenging John's conclusions, and this is my seventh follow up post. And there were a few I didn't answer. Not exactly home field advantage for a Intel investor who feels he is at least somewhat objective about both companies. I've always said that these two companies have much more in common than their differences. If the market is good, both sets of stockholders will do well. If it's bad, we suffer together. Maybe somebody needs to start a microprocessor thread, where the common interest of the industry is discussed, without any animosity between INTC, AMD or TMTA investors. Somehow I don't think it would be very well attended. John