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To: Diver who wrote (2437)	7/10/1998 9:08:00 AM
From: Little Engine	Respond to of 12810

So much for "coming clean" and listing one's real name, etc., here... getting death threats in print is exciting enough.

To: Diver who wrote (2437)	7/10/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12810

In case you didn't make it the bottom of the article ( or don't subscribe ) it offers an intriguing hint as to the identity of MR PINK. Internet posters have offered several names as the possible identity of "Mr. Pink," including Daniel Loeb, 36, managing member of hedge-fund firm Third Point Management Co. in New York. Mr. Loeb, in an e-mail response to several messages, said, "Third Point does not comment on the existence of its short positions and does not comment on negative stories about companies." He didn't respond to the question of whether he is "Mr. Pink" in his e-mail, and said he didn't have time to respond to questions in an earlier, brief telephone conversation from his office. Mr. Loeb's firm has certainly put its money where "Mr. Pink's" mouth is: Of a sampling of 18 stocks offered as "picks" by "Mr. Pink," 14 showed up as Third Point holdings on March 31, according to Third Point regulatory filings collected by Technimetrics Inc. Third Point's top four holdings -- Summit Holding Southeast Inc., Independence Community Bank Corp., First Sierra Financial Inc. and Solutia Inc. -- are stocks that have been strongly recommended by "Mr. Pink." Third Point's record suggests the followers of "Mr. Pink" have been right to hang on his words: The firm's primary fund returned 44.3% in 1996 and 52.5% in 1997, according to Managed Account Reports, New York. "Mr. Pink," in the phone interview, asked a reporter not to "out" him as he had outed Mr. Davidson. At the same time, he expressed no regrets about disclosing Mr. Davidson's identity and accepted no responsibility for the harassing messages Mr. Davidson says he has received. "I didn't make a single one of those calls," he says. "If people did that, they were wrong." Mr. Davidson says he "would pay a lot of money" to learn the real identity of his Internet adversary -- but says he wouldn't send "Mr. Pink" anything beyond a Christmas card. Above all, he says, "I just want my vengeance in being proven correct" about Chromatics.