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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1418)	12/19/1997 9:00:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 4295

Jeff: Re: FBN Hall of Indignity inductee candidates Gosh, there are so many possibilities. I'll have to contemplate this one for a while. Wouldn't want to leave anybody out, you know. TED

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1418)	12/19/1997 9:17:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4295

Humbly report, Jeff, regarding FBN Hall of Indignity. Inductee #3: Innovative Research Associates, Inc. -- 08/30/1997 IRA particularly likes ConSyGen, One Up and Strategia at current levels and has a strong buy recommendation on all three. biz.yahoo.com tscn.com Inductee #4: tech (Carla Kruytbosch, StockMan, H Patel, and Frank Ferrari, Shawn Murphy, etc. etc. etc.) So many quotes to choose from, but, let's just take one of the most recent ones, and compare: Message 3001514 Message 2755341 I remain, humbly dreaming of dignity, by the mail slot of the mail room, near the first arch of the Mala Strana side of Charles Bridge, where they serve great hot rum, gratis for me, yours truly, indignant, Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com )

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1418)	12/19/1997 9:21:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4295

Jeff: Re: FBN Hall of Indignity ... Well, it didn't take me very long to figure out that this selection process is a difficult activity. I guess we need to define the rules a little more explicitly. For instance, what are the limits? Certainly we have to include those officers of public companies who make misleading statements. And, financial analysts who make ridiculous guesses. But, what about SI posters who are so adamant in their quest for Hall of Indignity membership that they make fools of themselves ... over and over again? How about we build a new product .... uh ... let's see ... how about .... "FBN-Indignity-Detector". Yeah, that's it. Then, we can point it at any of our favorite SI threads and have it "fully automatically" select entrants. Let's start with the following threads ... CSGI, DDIM, IAIC, IVXR, TPII, ZITL, and ZMAX. I suppose others will come to mind. Oh, goodness me. How could I leave out the Y2K Scam thread? This task is so mind boggling! TED

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1418)	12/19/1997 9:49:00 AM
From: Hoatzin	Respond to of 4295

Jeff, my nominee for the FBN Hall of Indignity: Here is a partial table of contents of the current issue of "Year/2000 Journal" y2kjournal.com (actual text of articles is not available online) =============================================================== November/December, 1997 Volume 1 Number 6 Year/2000 Compliance Letters: The Paper Blizzard Begins Greg Cirillo To the Mainstream Press: Get a Clue! William M. Ulrich Why are Year/2000 Projects So Difficult and Risky? Ed Yourdon Constructing Adequate Test Data Don Estes Year/2000: It's Not Just a Mainframe Problem Bill Pike NationsBank Plans For NO Year/2000 Surprises Rich Seeley Year/2000 and the Role of Government Jerry L. Johnson, Kathy Rosmond, Leon A. Kappelman Expansion vs. Windowing Michael P. Harden Adaptive Leadership and the Year/2000 Crisis John Hiles Embedded Microchips: Another Dimension of The Year/2000 Challenge Ann K. Coffou Picking Year/2000 Profits Off the Shelf J. David Stewart ================================================================= After reading pages of dreary technical stuff, it's good to relax with a few chuckles, courtesy of good old Dave Stewart. Dave can help you avoid investing in "Johnnie-come-lately" y2k plays with no shelf life after 12/31/1999. "For stocks that don't have a shelf life, if you pay any more (than 1X the 199 earnings estimate), you're paying too much - meaning your only hope of getting out ahead will be to find an even greater fool." Dave certainly knows that theory. He goes into some detail on DDIM and VIAS as two companies that will use y2k as a "door-opener" to "much bigger opportunities" after y2k. Dave rehashes his old "I was the first one to discover DDIM" routine. DDIM, apparently, has "gone on to become the sweet-heart of the market" (I guess Dave hasn't read the DDIM thread for the last several months) "not to mention a darling of billionaire investor George Soros." Er, right, except that George never did buy DDIM himself, it was two brothers named Barton, who apparently invest Soros' capital at their own discretion (according to the Fortune article about Stewart and y2k from 8/19/1996). And I think they have since sold... Strangely, there's no mention anywhere in this article of the biggest y2k play of all, "the software solution for the next millenium", "the next Microsoft": ZITL. I still have a copy of the Stewart Report Volume II, Issue 2, from October 3, 1996 ("The Growth Stock Advantage of Serious Investors") that recommends ZITL. It's going to be a collector's item one day. But here's something Dave likes: AnswerThink "There will, no doubt, be exceptions. AnswerThink, a privately-held powerhouse that's looking to go public (hey, this sounds familiar!!!) just might be one of them. I'm very big on this company. Still, a great company and a great stock are frequently two different things, so we'll have to wait and see how it's prices at the time of offering."