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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (36)	4/16/2005 9:39:30 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120

Not true - I posted that there are paid touts and paid bashers. I answered one of the shortie defenders who posted the "name one" with my own "name one." I then went on and indicated that the extortion conviction charge showed that bashers certainly worked in concert, and extortion resulted in the dogs being called off. A distinction without a difference but if you want to talk about bashers being directly paid, fine. Touts are forced to disclose and I think that's a good thing. Let's get paid bashers to disclose and full investigation of hedge funds. What's so wrong about that? This is what got you hedgie shortie defenders all upset.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (36)	4/16/2005 9:56:10 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120

Not that I really have to defend myself but things seem to have started around here where I responded to your post to kknight. You basically wished to minimize naked shorting or claim that it was minor compared to other abuses. I didn't disagree totally with you but went on with my own theories about naked shorting. siliconinvestor.com From there, Kevin posted about "crying wolf," hardly a defense when investigations are just starting. siliconinvestor.com My response - agreeing in part siliconinvestor.com After that the pieces came about in the press about naked shorting. The shortie crew couldn't really attack the message so they ran posts attacking Bob O'Brien, whoever he is. Talk about "off topic" attacks. I asked you about this Message 21030862 The guy pulled a good one, getting the attack dogs to go after him as they got lost at his fake casino address. I thought that was pretty cool. Anyway, things went on from there. Here's my point. I didn't bring up the topic. I agreed with you and said so in my early posts but raised other issues. When I questioned the value of attacking the leaders in the NSS awareness program, I started getting attacked. Go back over the thread if you don't believe me. Message 21030862 Yes, I responded to each personal attack but most here would as we see Tom C doing the same.