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Gold/Mining/Energy : ASHTON MINING OF CANADA (ACA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Famularo who wrote (4647)	4/1/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Alfonso Agostino	Respond to of 7966

Hiya Frank I guess that your bad for John Kasier's business! The thing is Frank you have all the respect of myself and everyone on this thread, you should consider your own newsletter! I for one thank you for all the info and it just goes to show me that although you owe a large amount of Ashton/Pure you don't have a hidden agenda. Your honest! Which is the only way to gain any respect. John sounds like he wishes he could post on this thread! I say come on over Johnny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Luck All Alfonso

To: Famularo who wrote (4647)	4/1/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: violetta martinez	Respond to of 7966

Frank, I don't subscribe to his tracker and certainly would not want my hard earned money spent on reading about his unhappiness re: your great posts which are informative ,positive and free! After reading all these posts I would have to assume he is feeling disappointed that he didn't buy enough shares of Ashton so he could just sit back and retire eventually. Everyone has the odd bad day !!Hope things get better for both of you soon and we get back to finding big pink radishes. First crop should be out soon. Cheers, Violetta

To: Famularo who wrote (4647)	4/1/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Martin Wormser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7966

Frank "The DreamMaster" Famularo, Anyone get a proxy with your annual report? martin

To: Famularo who wrote (4647)	4/1/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Jimsy	Respond to of 7966

Frank - quite frankly (no pun intended) most of those newsletters operate the same way and without much due diligence. They find a bunch of bottom fish stocks, pick up some shares themselves (usually declare they have), then recommend them to their followers who when they start buying up the stock bid up the price. Then depending on the savey of the newsletter writers they sell into this price appreciation and make some money. So they collect money off their subscribers to send out recommendations which they act on to drive up the stock for the newsletter writers. The reason the newsletter writers don't complain about reposting of their recommends is that by the time that is done, the stock has usually gone up, and the news letter writer just has a wider distribution to sell into, thankyou very much as I take my money to the bank. Some of the newsletter writers even get paid by the companies they write about, and the companies, make claims that so and so news letter writer has written about them - its really hilarious to observe this. The Internet sort of exposes some of this nonsense, and is a threat to the newsletter writer. No longer is the newsletter writer in good control of his game plan. As soon as he recommmends something, the followers can get on the Internet and check out why the recommends. In many cases, I expect that the recommends are totally without any basis. I have put my Tradestation 55 indicators on some of those recommends from time to time and they really look like nonsense. So the Internet has greatly levelized the playing field in many ways, and this is all for the benefit of the common investor. If you go after the justification of recommendations, basic fundamental information in SEDAR or EDGAR, news releases, charts with indicators, insider trading, other peoples opinions, you may be less likely to be conned into some worthless stock. Guess we'll see many of these newsletter writers here in Toronto at the end of April, some of them are quite funny and witty and I enjoy them for their humour, but not much else.