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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (49109)	11/25/2001 11:30:35 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

>> i think the decline is because G&K portfolios, and the market in general, have not done well this year or last year, so posting numbers have declined. Thanks for your opinion, MM, but it was meant to be posed to contributors to the forum. >> i would say that a lot of the contrarian information posted here is worthy of consideration. That's not surprising <lol>. It might surprise you to know that I appreciate contrarian comments. What I find annoying are those who use unnecessary repetition as a device. uf

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (49109)	11/26/2001 10:06:31 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

no, i think the decline is because G&K portfolios, and the market in general, have not done well this year or last year, so posting numbers have declined. this is clearly the case w/r/t stock message board traffic throughout the Internet--a bad market causes people to lose interest in stock chat threads. i would say this thread has just experienced what is going on elsewhere as well. I don't know about the level of participation in message board traffic, but the Motley Fool has recently doubled its online customer base. David Gardner recently said, "We've doubled our audience over the course of this bear market. We had a million and a half unique visitors [per month] a year and a half ago. We have 3 million today. And that's [just] our website." (That last comment references the fact that the Fool's customers aren't limited to their website.) bizforward.com --Mike Buckley