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Non-Tech : Ashton Technology (ASTN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mmmary who wrote (4167)	8/30/2001 1:53:59 AM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4443

I see you've taken my suggestion to "lighten up" to heart. Open season on distortion, huh? How's this for my response: Anybody who thinks eVWAP volume is not the most important issue facing this company, or who feels it necessary to suggest that company supporters who call attention to volume and revenue are hypesters, is in deep denial. If the current volume trend continues, the issues you've been ranting about all diminish in importance -- all of them. Conversely, if the current volume trend reverses or flattens, the issues you are singularly focused upon probably don't matter anyway -- because the ultimate outcome will be the same. And guess what, we have known that (and expressed it) even before you returned here in March. Mary, eVWAP volume growth reflects customer acceptance, customer expansion, increased revenue, decreased dilution, potential avoidance of delisting, and a lot more than that. That's not hype, that's reality. ASTN is not just an abstraction for you to distort, it's an operating business selling a product to the financial community. The ONLY measure of the success of that effort is eVWAP volume. And that measure is looking considerably better as each week passes. I know it's tough for you to believe, but ASTN's world doesn't revolve around you or your lawsuit. It revolves around building a successful business under very difficult and challenging circumstances. Something they are doing, by the way, however difficult it has proven to be. Financial success -- expansion of revenue and profitability in their core business -- has been the central focus of management's efforts for quite some time now. You and your suit, on the other hand, are peripheral at most -- a creation of your own hunger for attention, something they probably felt they had to do when you stepped over the line with that mob crap. You've won a procedural victory, but it doesn't mean that you were right substantively. It means that a Pennylvania trial level court doesn't think a Pennsylvania company can sue a California resident in Pennsylvania for things she says on the internet from her living room in L.A. -- nothing more, nothing less. And you are quite right -- the scales of justice are tipped in favor of defendants under recent California anti-SLAPP laws. Assuming the Pennsylvania decision is not appealed, I suspect the civil case is over. Still, you should enjoy your procedural victory, Mary -- congrats. And I'll enjoy this week's "week-to-date" average volume on eVWAP of 3.35 Million revenue shares per day. In the last week of August no less. Of course that's not important, right? Cheers. Mark P.S. - I think Johnny Cochran would make a perfect lawyer for you in California . . . it would be poetry, truly.