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Technology Stocks : Osicom(FIBR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (6402)	4/9/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: CMS27	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

>>SCAM is just a simple way of summing up what this company is all about. I could, (and have) gone into details.<< Early on you gave no explanation other than it was the tape telling you that the stock was going down. You even at one point refused to do any research or discuss anything about this company. You have offered more detailed explanations recentely. But as I said at one point you were not offering any sort of reasoned opinion, just yelling the word SCAM. >>Just because shorts target companies that engage in these types of financing doesn't mean they have manipulated anything.<< This is true. Someone with a short strategy based upon these convertibles is somehting I would consider a fair play and a well reasoned position. What I am suggesting is that the manipulation comes through widely distributed publications. Where loose inuendoes and no more than insignificant dirty laundry is put in BIG BOLD HEADLINES. Now shorting a company based on convertible shares with the knowledge of such a publications hitting the news is not a fair play. You can speculate on how the author could play a role in this or what he may gain. It is a scenario which is not hard to imagine, who knows what really is the case. Maybe Barrons thought a story of loose findings about some tiny networking stock was really important front page news. I guess it's possible. I find it interesting that MarketMover, who hasn't posted here since I brought this idea up, and is running a large hedge fund short FIBR has had conversations with Bill Alpert the author of the Barrons article about possible future articles. If Bill were to call me a few days before another negative artcile hits the front pages I'd go short FIBR too. >>What about all the positive talk on this thread? You are free to counter everything I say and convince people to bid the stock up!<< As explained above the talk in this thread is not such a great concern. But if the company percieved it were under attack in a way which I described above, it may just try to put out every fire it could, including people on the internet yelling SCAM. Your views have now been given national exposure through a magazine. Your a cut above us Craig, none of us bulls have been given that same chance. So as it turns out I don't have the ability to counter you on an equal basis. Scott