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To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (141)	11/17/2001 4:54:44 AM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 1003

Why would it be difficult. One database. Keep SI the same...Just license it out. (I don't see why you would have to mirror anything) It's value added. It would sell itself. You just can't pay a billion dollars for it. Not a huge revenue generator... I mean even if you had 50 thousand subscribers paying 100 bucks a year...that's only 5 million in revenue. You know, Yahoo is what you make of it. If you go there and actually try to converse with people...and challenge ideas....and just plug away (ideas) like a blue collar worker...well, nevermind...

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (141)	11/17/2001 5:18:08 PM
From: mnoize	Respond to of 1003

Bob - At MarketNoize, we have actually discussed such a platform several times. We were thinking of developing a spidering system that would pull messages from the various financial boards and integrate them with our site, but opted not to, in fears of copyright issues. But if some sort of content sharing contract could be worked out with SI, we would have no problems in providing such a "mirror" system. We have such technological resources available. So if the SI users are forced to start from scratch on another system, what message board features would be a "must have" before they would feel comfortable using that system? I'd love to hear some feedback from the veterans. = Jim =

To: (Bob) Zumbrunnen who wrote (141)	11/19/2001 8:29:36 AM
From: Bag of Pucks	Respond to of 1003

Bob, YOU DA MAN! I suspect that there was a solution somewhere and I didn't mean the redirection of URL - heck anyone can do that. Hopefully someone at SI can do it but if not, someone else will! I know a while back, SI 'rented' or did some kind of deal with Bloomberg or Instinet (?) or one of those institutional platforms to let the institutional traders 'chat'. Maybe that was another reason they normalized the interface as you eloquently put it. good luck!