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To: mmmary who wrote (2821)	4/19/2002 9:47:53 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

I'd have infinitely more respect for you if you weren't such a bald-faced liar. And did respect you a lot more before I knew that about you. No, I'm not saying that everything you say is a lie. Just that you frequently lie and know full well that's what you're doing. When you needed a token black in the country club, you begged me to come over, said my research was great. I didn't beg you to come over. I might've, however, made positive comments about your research. When you didn't need the token black any longer or it's not worth the effort because of all the complaints from teh paying members I don't care about complaints unless they're valid. If it's valid, one complaint gets my attention. If it's not, a thousand complaints are meaningless. And, yes, I've seen it happen. you kick me out and say my research has always stunk I didn't say your research has always stunk. Just wanted to point out that this is another lie. What I did say is that when it's clear that lying is something you have no qualms about doing, it does call into question the credibility of everything you say. This is a general truism, not just something I made up about you. You are making money from the posts of lying cheating stock promoters. You get money from the ads which is based on the traffic/clicks from the promoter's posts. No more than any other site. I don't know who all on iHub or any other site is a lying, cheating stock promoter. But if you think that I like lying, cheating promoters because they generate hits, which generate ad revenue, you're meowing up the wrong tree. Barely 2% of March's revenue came from ads. That model might work for RB and Yahoo, but it's not for me. Quality posters are more likely to subscribe than the touts and their followers are, so it makes no sense to try to corner the "lying tout" market. Promoters also pay to post there nowadays besides ads Okay, I won't label this one a lie. Just a really ignorant statement. It's speculation you're presenting as fact. Completely inaccurate speculation, mind you, but really what you're doing is hazarding a guess and presenting it as fact. Not as bad as lying, but it does make one wonder which of yours "facts" are lies, which are just things you wish were true, and which are the truth. Not clear enough? Okay, give me a list of names of "promoters" and I'll tell you how many are subscribers. I already know the number is zero or darned near. The ratio is lower there than anywhere else except agora. Not true. But I suppose if you only watch a board or two, you could come away with that impression. I'm sure the ratios is lower than SI's but higher than RB's and Yahoo's. An increasing percentage of the site's traffic isn't "promoter vs basher". It's civil discussion of specific equities and the market as a whole. Why? Because the promoters email matt and whine or they all band together and start TOU wars against people, like me, an honest* negative poster.* LOL! Regarding the rest of that statement, it's just more flatulence masquerading as gospel. Matt even recently implemented (because it was important enough to him to not wait for me to do it) the ability to disable the complaint link for people who abuse it. And you already know which people are most inclined to abuse it, just as I know. Anyway, enough of this for me tonight. Any more lies from you about me will likely go unrefuted tonight since I'll be on to other things, so make 'em good. :)