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To: SI Bob who wrote (17098)	5/17/2003 8:10:36 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

What about IQ Charts? Does INSP still own them? What about Bubblevision?

To: SI Bob who wrote (17098)	5/17/2003 8:19:26 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

Congrats Bob and Matt! Amazing coup! I hope on the top of your to do list will be returning the familiar GUI we have known since the Dyers owned SI. Best wishes for great success. I'm happy! Rick

To: SI Bob who wrote (17098)	5/17/2003 11:03:44 PM
From: Sr K	Respond to of 32871

Do you have to register "Free" to find out what the Premium Registration costs? Are there multiple levels of Premium memberships? Why is the cost not in your FAQ's or is it somewhere else on your site for a non-member to consider? Are lifetime members going to be lifetime members? I do not use SI to share insights. I use it to survey what is going on with stocks, and others' comments is part of that. But more often to be totally ignored. Anyone who passes inside information is committing a crime so any comments here are mostly noise. Ditto on iHub. I just took a quick look and checked CKFR and the post that came up from Vendit was 180 degrees wrong (her thought that she exited too early (in 2001) and missed the boat). I do not think you can make money from people who just want to talk uselessly about stocks. You need another plan. The news on the Home page here was useful when it had 5-6 items, and useless when it dropped to 2. In either case I could click for the full list of news items even though the fonts made it harder to read. And you plan to drop it, or already have, totally. I want snapshots through the day which I get from different sites. What good is a snapshot of people's comments? Maybe just useless enough that it will drive more of us to read more EDGAR filings. Maybe you are driven toward input that you don't have to pay for. Try to get AP News cheaper. Or get AP and Reuters to bid and pick one. What is your company's policy, if any, on using the raw data of the requests for quotes and other info, by security, and the individual stock lists that users have created? Is this data used in an aggregate manner, or ignored? Or, other? I have wondered if Charles Schwab or Ameritrade, or others, have been able to discern any value (even if contrary) in the quotes requested. Even if there is no value in this, I want to know your company policy regarding it, and have any change in the policy posted. I suppose that very active boards imply little profit opportunity (at least on the upside) because the situation is well aired. The best feature that is no longer here was the stock screener. Why would you not offer a spellchecker except to Premium members? You want a dubm-looking history of the posted insights? <gg> If --- it is a cost sharing idea, to monitor the misspelled words and auto-correct them or add words from time to time (like "spellchecker") that's probably OK. But I think the smarter you make your members think they are, the more they will post, and the more traffic you'll have. If your advertisers only get to present to those who don't care how their messages look and are too cheap to become Premium members, I think they are getting the less valuable audience. I hope you paid zero or even are getting reimbursed for costs and losses through a certain date. If you paid more than $250,000 I think it's another good deal for Infospace. Please give 2 weeks or more notice when features are being dropped, so even if someone is travelling there is time to save lists or other items. Thanks.