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To: SI Dave who wrote (2784)	12/3/2004 12:18:29 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 6035

Obviously we could come up with boatloads of arguments for both ways. But you da boss.

To: SI Dave who wrote (2784)	12/4/2004 3:25:04 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

Dave, Michal has a valid point, especially in the penny stock world where ticker symbols change all the time... and often the new company gets its own new thread (not to mention that the replaced ticker symbol often gets reassigned). Fortunately, I think there's an easy solution if you want to eliminate tickers from thread titles: make the ticker field of extended/variable length with the most recent symbol prepended. For example, Amazon Natural Treasures would have a ticker symbol field that looked like: "ANTD, AZNT, AMZN". Suppose the original thread was called "AMZN: Cures for All Known Diseases". The easiest way to find it would be to type in "AMZN" which, you now propose, will have been excised from the thread title. Yes, using my solution, doing a thread search on the current AMZN would bring up the penny stock one in addition to Amazon.com, but big deal. For quote purposes, just use the first listed ticker. If a stock gets delisted, you could prepend "XXXX" if it makes life easier (and thus Amazon.com's price would not show on an old unrelated AMZN thread). - Jeff