To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (548 ) 7/14/2001 8:49:43 PM From: Richard James Respond to of 683 a transcript of the call concerning the proxy has been filed with the SEC and it discusses the reasons. You're too kind; yes, I was aware of the transcript at the same time you were, well after I made my request. -Thank you, Kevin. The same reasons were previously mentioned in press releases. I won't even touch your suggestion that the SEC simply rubber stamps what a company wants to do with its stock. It's not my suggestion. It's the dogma of Jacobs and most of the longs in message-board land. -Gee really, I never heard that. You must know a lot more than I do, Kevin. I have always heard that the SEC rubber stamps anything that Wall Street, the brokers and the exchanges, want. as discussed on Yanoo, Congress is getting nosy and the brokers are covering themselves Congress?!? See, this is why I can't even read the other AREM boards anymore, they're just making stuff up and daring people to disagree with them. -Yeah, which is why the name Congressman Markey, chairman of the investigation into the 1987 programmed trading crash. And Jacobs flat lied when he said that a congressman had called him about a call the congressman received about what was happening in brokerage house back rooms. And Senator Corzine knows nothing about any of this. And Kevin, don't call your local Congressional representatives. AREM was added to the restricted list (reluctantly added after Irwin L Jacobs climbed all over it). That is false. AREM was added to the list at the proper time in accordance with NASD rules. Jacobs claimed credit for it but that was just a bit of ego stroking. -Isn't easy to say something is false. Do you have any facts to prove that AREM shouldn't have been restricted earlier?