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To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (9773)	1/21/2003 12:30:41 PM
From: paunch13	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11603

Richard, Maybe that is why they are not making the trades. Did you notice that the dropped down from .04 and made one trade for .03 and went back to .04 again. John

To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (9773)	1/22/2003 9:32:28 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11603

"market makers with a significant naked short position" . biz.yahoo.com Participating OTC Bulletin Board Companies Confirm Certificate Only Transfer Procedure Meets Market Compliance and Trading Standards Thursday January 16, 11:57 am ET BLAINE, Wash., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of OTC bulletin board listed companies that have exited the DTC system and have subsequently been the target of a media campaign that questions the validity and legality of this procedure have jointly confirmed the precedence for the use of this method and support by all governing bodies concerned. The group of companies that have opted out of electronic share ownership via the Depository Trust Corporation (DTC) in favor of actual share certificates includes... These companies began exiting the DTC system in 2002 due to its inability to provide authenticity of actual shares trading, allowing for illegal naked short selling trade abuses. Under a naked short sale of stock, short positions are not declared, shares are not borrowed to cover the short sale, and shares are sold without delivering the stock to the purchaser. Naked short selling results in the undermining of real shareholder ownership by naked short sales of stock and resulting failed deliveries of real certificates that artificially inflate share ownership and devalue the trading prices of shares in the marketplace. Unscrupulous brokers and market makers may conspire to manipulate and devalue the price of securities in this way....