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Technology Stocks : Cymer (CYMI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TechHunter who wrote (9736)	11/14/1997 6:12:00 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

TechHunter, Looks like you've got some enthusiastic supporters for your idea. So be it then. I'd like to offer some technical suggestions for your meeting which could make this more interesting for the everyone. I know that this complicates matters but I think that it would be fascinating if you could hold your meeting on Silicon Investor. There would be some requirements - like both of you having an internet connection in the interview room and also for you both to have a typist. It would also be helpful if you could enlist the support of the webmistress here in SI to make the first part of your interview a read-only(except for you and Dr. Atkins) thread. After maybe one-half hour of Q&A the interview could be turned over to the likes of us. At this point the webmistress would change the thread access to just like any other thread and Dr. Atkins could post answers to our follow-up questions. So, basically what you would have to do it to create a thread called "Interview with Cymer's CEO" or something like that and then start your Q&A. After the follow-up questions and concluding remarks by the CEO the thread then would be turned into a read only thread. There are a few other technical details that could further enhance such a project but I'll leave that for a latter discussion. Regards...Craig

To: TechHunter who wrote (9736)	11/14/1997 6:26:00 PM
From: sepku	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25960

TechHunter, I have been monitoring the Cymer board at AOL's Fool after inviting them to participate in this. I have been using the Fool for its various tools for a couple years now aside from my ISP, and I should have known what to expect. Unfortunately, most of the AOL investors reacted as I suspected they would...they immediately began to bitch and whine against such a meeting, suggesting that we are simply distracting management from their jobs, etc. The ignorance of Motley Fool investors is recognized far and wide at Silicon Investor, where the more sophisticated investors congregate, but I thought it fair to include Cymer investors everywhere. It is a shame that due to the reason the Fool was founded, most investors who make use of it are those beginning investors who are just being weaned off of their mutual funds and full-service brokerages. So being, they are usually quite ignorant by nature. One amusing development was the apparent paranoia that has sprung up at AOL due to taking Curly's post re: shorts using your share position info to their advantage. Now some have suggested that this effort to stage an online investor meeting with a company officer could be a conspiracy by the short interest attempting to learn the positions of the longs! LMAO! See what I mean? However, there ARE many investors at the Fool (minority) who are very experienced and savvy. Some are also members of SI (Mason and ScotMCI). I was hoping to communicate with these individuals, and indeed I have received emails from those in support of this meeting. I will forward you the details via email. All in all, I suppose it matters little since we have already accumulated the 1% in shares that were needed. Style Pts.