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To: Canuck Dave who wrote (45538)	3/15/2006 12:48:45 AM
From: russet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 313023

The post referred to general information, not specific to you or the thread. But,...I bet there are several people that could be considered insiders posting on this thread,...me included. One has to consider what an insider really is. If you take a trip to a minesite and glean information about how something is running,...are you an insider? Such a person would talk to the people running the site, talk to people in the know, talk to corporate officials,...are they insiders? More inside than the rest of you, wouldn't you think? I would. There are different degrees of insiders. A close personal friend or relative of someone in the industry is probably an insider. Have a beer or two with a person in the industry and next thing you know you have information about how things are running that no one else but an insider knows. Go to the PDAC and talk to everyone,...rumors fly and next thing you know you know more than most shareholders might know. There is very little negative information about any stock on most threads. Those that question are quickly dismissed as shorters or fools,...yet there is lots of negative things about all stocks. There are several people posting here that openly admit they are close in different ways to insiders of several companies. Even CC is closer to certain company officials than many of us will ever be. Who posts anything about a company unless they own the stock, or at least are thinking of owning the stock,...which likely means they think it has a chance of going up. So any person that posts on any thread should be suspect of having some kind of personal bias,...if not inside information. I tend to post on general concepts in the market in recent years, rather than on company specific topics. Realize that most people in this industry care only about their own paycheque and personal wealth and wellbeing, and little to nothing about you or me. Several newsletter writers are touching on this topic in recent months, but few will single out the companies whose principals are chasing personal wealth at the expense of shareholders,...yet those companies far outnumber the ones that don't. Buyer beware. Buy and hold stock strategies are for fools. Any company can go bankrupt. Governments are just as corrupt as any company. Humans aren't at the top of the food chain because they were nice to others :-)