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To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/1/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 32932

So, Brad, when is SI distributing dividends to all its loyal members? <ggg> Answer, of course, is every day. We grow richer by the experience, the info, the interaction, etc. Thanks for all your efforts, Spots

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/1/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: raven	Respond to of 32932

Brad: I told you we would help you grow your business. You have some very smart people out here and some deep thinkers. Ever heard "Think and Grow Rich". We appreciate all the changes you have made to help us. raven

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/2/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Winer	Respond to of 32932

Hi Brad. I see that there is a Trash Can that will remove personal messages from the "Unread Messages" area. Would it be possible to allow self-determined deletions from our individual message archives? As of now the private messages are mixed in with all of the other messages and it would be nice to move some of them out of there. Thanks. R. Winer

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/4/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: broken_cookie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32932

Hi Brad, Love the new features. I have a request/suggestion. Would it be possible to browse someone's posts similar to the way you browse a thread. ie. You click peoplemarks. Up comes a list of folks with the new messages in red. Could you then click on the red new message number and see the corresponding message. Also could you advance through their messages with previous/next keys without having to go back to the profile each time. Some people put lots of graphics/charts in their profiles and they take an inordinate amount of time to reload. Thanks, Rich

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/4/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: 246810	Respond to of 32932

I just found welcome this am after being on the site for a week. What a great site. People tend to go for the data and forget they should learn all the fine points to make it more efficient. (My case all the time.) I am next going to look for tutorials because these techies talk way above my understanding.

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/4/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Respond to of 32932

More features... more features... Thanks, Brad, for the great work on the portfolio feature. I hope it's not causing any slowdown, as some have suggested this morning. But, I've still got MyYahoo Portfolio running in another window, and I figured that if I told you why, you would consider what to do about it. In Yahoo, you can create several portfolios, not unlike the ones that SI now supports. Some can have associated shares, or not. But the reason I'm still running Yahoo is that I want to look at several of my portfolios at once. I don't want to create a single big portfolio, because it would then be full of junk, like my own stock's competitors, and some odd prices I'm watching (like the hot tip my wife got at a food show), but I want to see those at the same time I watch my own stuff. Yahoo shows that on a sort-of summary screen; like SI, you can only see one portfolio if you get into details. What I want could be accomplished within one portfolio, I guess, if there were somehow dividers in it, so I could separate the good stuff from the modem wars from the watch list, and so on. That's my comments.... Thanks, as always, for your attention; SI is truely spectacular. Don't work on this feature tonight... but when it's convenient. In the mean time, I'll try to stay out of the SI Addict's thread. My best wishes, Dick

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/4/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Surething	Respond to of 32932

Dear Brad, I really like your new private messaging system. Just one question though? What is Silicon Investor's policy regarding the public posting of messages sent privately. Example: Say I engage in a private message conversation with a certain individual. Nothing rude or crude just private thoughts. Private messages are sent and received and replied to amicably by both parties. Say one of those parties the next day gets annoyed and threatens to publish one of these private messages. Let's take this a step further. Say this individual actually does go ahead and publishes this private message. What is your policy? Surething

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/4/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 32932

Do Portfolios currently support options? It know NAQ has options quotes, but I can't seem to find an acceptable symbol format. David

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/6/1998 3:22:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32932

Brad - I got an idea. Most people here (except for me) don't have time to sit and keep clicking 'Refresh' to see if we have any messages. We could be productively spending our time doing other things while waiting for message replies. I don't go in and check my email every 10 minutes to see if I have a message. I've got a little background program that sits in the task bar that will check that for me. Every five minutes, it calls up the mail server and checks. Then, if I have a new message, it pops up a message box and warns me. A program such as this could probably be written now for SI. It would just request the Inbox page every 5 minutes, then hack the output to determine if a new message is available. This might prove to load your servers too much, if many people started using it. The Inbox page not only finds the message ID's of the new messages, but joins these with another table to get the beginning lines of these messages. Also, it consults your personal preferences to see what kind of formatting options you have. Also, it has to package this up nicely into an HTML page to spit out to the user. Not something you want everybody doing every few minutes, automatically. But, if you created a light interface.... maybe just spit out a delimited list of reply IDs of any new messages. Not even HTML formatted. This might prove feasible. I'm not suggesting that you write the client software, but only provide a URL to access such a "light interface". I'm sure if you committed to an interface, someone would be glad to write the client for SI. This would be a useful service to the members. ~Mitch

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/7/1998 10:18:00 AM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 32932

Quotes on the fly, as promised. Well done, my man. What's next, Place a Trade?

To: SI Brad who wrote (643)	3/7/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 32932

Love your quotes "on the fly" but time? of quote, don't know if its the time of the post or delayed or current or "unrefreshed" time. Of course, its Saturday, today, so its fine, unless they feed from Instanet also. But, still AWESOME DUDE!!! Thank you, again,