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To: marcos who wrote (4174)	10/18/2002 11:24:40 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5315

Well, with the touts went their necessary tormentors. The folks who really do research and report on it intelligently go to where the statements are being made that need refuting, so when I brought the smack down on the potty-mouthed, screaming touts and they bailed for RB, the naysayers went with them. Too bad. The touts will exist somewhere. Always. Just the way it is. Wherever they exist, it's fine so long as there are intelligent people posting the truth so that those who're intelligent enough to listen can be saved from the touts. What really burns me, though, (getting back to Jack Uselton) is that the touts basically just disappeared and I'm sure just showed up with different names to run the same scam again. Not just the ones who were in on the scam, but those who foolishly believed them and were vitriolic in their "defense" of their company. The ones who threatened to kill people for posting negatively. And the ones who would flood my inbox with complaints that "so and so is a known paid basher and you'd better kick him out or you'll be sued because he's lying about this wonderful company." I used to literally get about 150-200 of those per day when DGIV and MTEI were in their heyday. I don't miss those days at all. Huge posting volume here, but it was almost all centered around those companies.