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To: Tom C who wrote (2424)	7/9/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: Diver	Respond to of 12810

Tom: Thanks for doing the heavy lifting by retrieving all the links. I was too busy (lazy?) to do it myself. SK

To: Tom C who wrote (2424)	7/9/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Strictly speaking, I'm all for it; I even like it and hope there's more. When you really look at it (&#151or at least, when "I" really look at it&#151), that's all these bullshit pennies are about anyway. Most of them hide behind some "premise" of "promising hope" fueled by dopey press releases and thread shills&#151hobbled by crappy fundamentals which the touts don't want you to look at anyway. At least this was an honest, out-in-the-open game of "Do you feel lucky?" To his credit, Copia said "Hey, the table is Blackjack, I'm the dealer. Wanna play?" I find that method much more honest and open than the rest of the horseshit that happens on penny threads. You get the ground rules out in the open. If you want to go into the casino, you know it's a "casino" instead of a "trumped-up shack with a false storefront" posing as a viable business. That makes for more accurate decision making when self-answering, "Do I want to go in?". I wish they all were like this. If you're going to go into a "questionable deal", it's much better to skip the BS and have the roulette wheel presented up front. "The Game" isn't so bad as long as it's really presented as "the Game", rather than "this is the Game, but I'm going to dress it up as IBM hoping that you'll buy into it".

To: Tom C who wrote (2424)	7/10/1998 9:40:00 AM
From: jmt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Excellent Excellent Excellent Post. Thanks for taking the time. jmt

To: Tom C who wrote (2424)	7/11/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: John Sladek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

Tom, I have sort of grown accustomed to the morons, scammers and spammers in the SI threads, but from time to time I am startled by something new. I have never seen anything like this! In a nut shell, these guys are using a public forum to coordinate a stock price manipulation scheme. Wow! I always thought that stock price manipulation, was sort of illegal. And to be discussing it in a public place such as SI (which by know we all know is followed by the Wall Street Journal, and likely by the SEC as well as by other regulators and by law enforcement officers) seems to me to be quite moronic! The other bad thing is the guys who seem to think its some kind of casino, and they are gambling that they will take some $ from a suckers. Then, after it collapses, they sit around complaining that they lost 80% of their investment - turns out that they were the biggest suckers. The chances of winning aren't that great, especially when the guys promoting the whole scheme could be front running the stock and selling into the price rise. It seems to me that this sort of thing might appeal to the sort of people who might otherwise be out playing "chicken" with their automobiles. Based on the above criteria, I think most of the people on that thread could be nominated as THREAD MORONS. Good work! Regards, John Sladek