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To: Dave Jacob who wrote (10589)	3/31/1998 11:35:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Respond to of 213176

As far as I am concerned the Motley Fools are a bunch of amateurs. [...] They made a couple of good guesses on IOM and AOL and the pack mentality of Wall Street made them heroes. I completely agree. I read their book, and thought it was pretty good at the time. Then I read _A Random Walk Down Wall Street_, and it made their book look like a kindergarten text. They seem to like tech stocks, but they have very little technical understanding. As for AOL, they got their start with them. The Fool on AOL was one of the first content sites AOL funded. I'm not sure they could say anything negative about AOL, much less sell their shares, given that kind of conflict of interest. A while ago, I ran AOL's fundamentals through their "pegulator" and it indicated that the right thing to do was short. I posted my results on the board, but got no response from Fool people. They're especially stupid about Apple. That recent article shows how little they follow the stock, though it doesn't stop them from making pompous pronouncements about it. rhet0ric

To: Dave Jacob who wrote (10589)	4/1/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 213176

As far as I am concerned the Motley Fools are a bunch of amateurs. I was subscribing to their newsletter and finally got sick of their cutesy childishness. I'm waiting to see what happens to them when the big crash comes some day. There was a very negative article on Apple/Rhapsody in "The Australian" (Only Australian national newspaper - lot nearer NYT than US Today though in quality) yesterday. Didn't sound good in terms of developers producing products for Rhapsody. David