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Gold/Mining/Energy : BCB VOICE SYSTEMS INC. (c.BIV) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Flora Wood who wrote (79)	3/23/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: J J	Respond to of 440

Flora, Thanx for the response and update. I am sure I speak for all when I say we definitely want to hear your findings re BCB's products on specific operating systems and any patent vulnerabilities that might exist. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend the AGM, but would also greatly appreciate a report on Mr. Speller's response to queries on his BCB relationship. Regards, JJ P.S. I am greatly enthused in the increased (renewed) interest of yours and Ken's part on this thread. P.P.S. Everybody, I tried to find a web site/e-mail address for the Investors Digest to voice our concerns, but had no luck. Don't tell me I actually have to call, or, shudder, write a snail mail letter. Any ideas, folks?

To: Flora Wood who wrote (79)	3/23/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: J J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

Flora, Further to your comment on Phil's "speculative" rating on BCB, I think most of us understand that. However, he also stated a year ago that he saw 1997 revenues quadrupling to $4.3 million and a whopping $43 million by the year 2000. What I would like to hear from Phil is, now that his 12 months are up and his subsequent "accumulate" recommendation in July at $0.20 and has since shrunken yet another 25%, where does he now stand on this company, and have his projections for the near and long term changed, and if so, to what? You have to understand our cynicism. We constantly see analysts' recommendations, but all too seldom do we see honest follow-up when those recommendations do not come close to panning out. As for Investors Digest, a publication to which we have subscribed for several years, but for which we will certainly will not go for an automatic renewal, their "reputable" status may be a tad subjective. They pay lip service to following up on their contributor's recommendations (a new feature), but I have yet to see any on the stocks I followed, including BCB, that were originally touted by ID. Nor have I been able to find any kind of electronic access to Phil Speller, his company, PWS Associates, Investors Digest and its publisher, MPL Communications. MPL Communications, by the way, is a mass-producer type shop of all kinds of "investment" related vehicles. One has to wonder if their original focus of educating their clients hasn't slipped somewhat to simply getting more clients. I know, I do. I would have to say that MPL's "reputation" is a good deal more hype than fact. And ever since my first subscription to one of MPL's publications, I have been inundated with direct mail to subscribe to a plethora of MPL offerings. To top it off, I have been unsuccessful in having my name removed from their overall mailing list. I do want to say that my ID experience hasn't been all bad - they do have a number of educational and interesting articles such as the quarterly DRIP report, the monthly brokerage forecast report and the monthly company key ratio report. You will notice that none of these is specific company related. I have been burned enough on these to the point I barely give them (specific stock recommendations) a passing glance. In fact, I would say if a stock is not being followed by a brokerage house so its forecast can be included in the ID monthly report, it shouldn't be in the ID at all! But why am I telling you this? If I had access to MPL, I'd be sending this to them. At least you can get a feel for what we in the real world experience, and possibly convey that to Phil. Maybe we will get a relevant response. And hopefully there is a message here for BCB as well. This goes back several postings when we were talking about BCB's visibility. Some of us definitely feel that if BCB could get a brokerage house's attention, (rather than some individual "analyst"), that the market would be more likely to sit up and take notice. JJ