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To: CynicalTruth who wrote (7410)	3/17/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 16892

"Squawwwk ... Innovative ... Arrraawwwk", says Barrons.....

To: CynicalTruth who wrote (7410)	3/17/1998 9:50:00 AM
From: Peter Stern	Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 16892

Due to customer demand, the web designers are frantically working on animated gifs of parrots, generating sound files of parrot sounds. We hope to have the animated, squawking parrots on both the classic and regular web sites soon. The above was a joke. More seriously, we do plan on adding indexes (indeces?) to each quotes page, in a way that wont slow anything down.... In fact, we have lots of enhancements planned, as always. Feel free to share your ideas. The way brainstorming works is, you share ideas without regard to functionality. And as to that person who is not allowed to use Island quotes, the story is something like this: We built the island HTML quote interface as a temporary service to promote Island, and we literally built it in one day. A saturday. Then everybody started using it, which was fine with us. But some mistook it for a Level II quote window, despite clear instructions to the contrary. Well, one day I was out of the office and my overly sensitive partner was sick of getting lots of hate mail from one person who refused to read directions, so he turned it off.... Which prompted a LOT of mail. So after much arguing and many food fights, we turned it back on with the disclaimer that you see.... All ancient history. -peter stern writing as a human being, but to avoid any compliance issues, Chief Technology Officer Datek Online