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Technology Stocks : Fonix:Voice Recognition Product (FONX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: franco nuvoloni who wrote (1477)	12/10/1997 9:23:00 AM
From: ed doell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

Hi everyone, fwiw, someone mentioned AOL on this thread. The quality of this thread on SI is and has been very high. I for one prefer to keep it that way and have made efforts in the past to do so. This post is a similar effort. It's important to keep this high quality debate going. We are all better for it. I have not seen anyone who is "blindly" bullish on fonix. If anyone wants to see something like that to satisfy their curiosity as to what that is like (despite a ruthless down trend in the stock price), try reading the ANCR thread since late September of this year. Take a look at a chart first. The comparison should reveal that the fonix thread is made up of fair and realistic assessments on either side. Frank, high quality research is hard work. And checking, Yahoo, SI, and AOL threads and the news is maintenance, and part of it, but is not primary research. There is far more to it than that. For example, Parx mentioned that he talked with Siemens, others have said that they have been out to SLC themselves (as I have), others have been persisent callers and researchers into VR and ASR and neural net technologies (as I have). Frank, maybe people who do this kind of work are "insiders" (of a type)...but not in the usual sense of the word...they are part of the elite corps of people who do their homework diligently and consistently...naturally they wish to communicate with those of a similar work ethic. But that ethic can only be hoped for and appreciated when it happens. Expectation will only disappoint, imho. I value the work you and Bob and Parx and others have contributed whether it fits my hopes and picture of the company or not. I also value your humanity, humor, and sense of fairness. Thank you, gentlemen! Ed

To: franco nuvoloni who wrote (1477)	12/11/1997 3:28:00 AM
From: Randall E Westberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3347

Hey Franco, I did attempt to correspond with you via e-mail on the subject of Fonix. Apparently my e-mail address is valid and yours isn't. You say: <<Randy, instead of contributing nothing to this thread through your posts, why don't you start taking your phone and try to do your own research. It takes a lot of energy and time to talk to these people, to find out who else you could talk to and not only the company. I am dedicating a lot of my time to do this. If you cannot afford to do so this is not my problem, but you should be grateful that other people who can are willing to post what they have found out.>> For starters, I have spent far more time and money researching Fonix than you would lead others to believe. I'll go one step further and say that I probably have spent more time checking this company out than you have. I was invited to and attended the LHSPF 2-Q, 1996 conference call along with Hambrecht&Quist, Cowen&Co. and Prudential Securities. I am not looking for someone to spoon feed me information on Fonix. So don't talk to me about your time and energy spent researching and my lack of effort to research. As far as phone calls go, the totals are in the hundreds of dollars. Then there are airline tickets and the rescheduling fees involved with change of dates. Did I mention the lodging and transportation expenses, that too. Now that I've covered that why don't you go back to the beginning of this thread and reread everything you have said to date. Mr. Nuvoloni, I did my research and came to my own conclusions. I unfortunately do not possess the ability to state my thoughts as eloquently as Mark Cox or as logically as Dr. Robert White. I have made an effort to be as civil on this thread as I can possibly be. I am not short this stock and have never been. In fact I still have a long position.