To: Jon Tara who wrote (4695 ) 3/25/1998 1:50:00 AM From: Seth Shafer Respond to of 18444
Jon, You obviously expend a lot of energy here, and since you claim you have no stake in this whatsoever, I can only suppose that you are either one of those lucky individuals blessed with an inordinate amount of spare time, or that you are a less fortunate individual who actively seeks to cause harm to others for purely malicious reasons. Your statement that just a week ago there was absolutely no doubt as to audited financials being available by the end of the month is is so blatantly untrue and leading I can't believe you would attempt to get away with it. For whatever personal reasons, you seem committed to staying here, and committed to the slant you're taking, so at least take the time to be creative and come up with something negative that might pass muster. God knows there are plenty of options. If you would take the time to actually read the posts from a week ago (and even further back) you would find that if there was any issue that WAS in doubt, it was the release of audited financials. Among others, both Joe Copia and Matty G, the original touters of this stock, have stated repeatedly that they are on the sidelines (or even farther away) until the doubts surrounding the financials (and other issues) are settled, one way or another. Even the ardent longs have expressed doubt again and again as to the release of financials. The only reference we have to financials being out by the end of the month is a single email (or conversation, I forget at the moment) in which Burgess "reportedly" claimed that financials would be out at the end of this month. I say "reportedly" for obvious reasons. You're clearly intelligent enough to know that anyone would be a fool to take any post on SI as actual fact. If we had two dozen posts here, from two dozen different users who all claimed that Burgess made the same promise to them, then I would agree with you, it would look bad if financials didn't come out. But we don't have that. You're building up an elaborate straw man from a single post, which no one else has taken as gospel but you, for whatever personal reasons, and are using said straw man to create a calamitous event if financials aren't released by the end of the month. The only binding, public statement as to making financials available comes from the ESVS deal, a fact which you repeatedly like to ignore. Wait until that date. If nothing, then toot your horn. Don't worry, we'll all recognize the sound. I'm not trying to downplay the negative impact of the way NETZ has handled the financials issue. IMHO, nothing has hurt this stock more than the wishy-washy manner in which they have made claims concerning the release of financials and not delivered. But the company has made no public, substantiated claim here, and trying to turn posts on SI into press releases from the company only makes you look foolish.