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To: SI Bob who wrote (1932)	7/23/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32918

Message 5289239 To: Riley G (50041 ) From: Rich_1 Thursday, Jul 23 1998 11:47AM ET Reply # of 50069 Isn't it amazing that the neys and Shorts can throw insults at shareholders while we are instructed to take our opinions to PM ! I saw that somebody posted another phoney web-site on the PRWT thread, then MM Meyerson started buying up the cheap shaken shares! to see these shorts pestering us day by day just enforces the fact that they are very short. ***************************************************** WHY NO SANCTIONS? ******************************************** In the classroom, the teacher will not allow a dispruptive student to monopolize her/his class. There is a classroom full of students that will suffer if the disruptive student is permitted to deter the teacher from educating her students. The student may be asked to stand in the corner, go to the principal's office or recieve a detention. The teacher will not sanction the disruption of her classroom. The students are there for an education and the disruptive students behavoir jeopardizes that. The behavoir won't be tolerated. On S.I. small investors meet on message boards to discuss the merits of particular investments. When one of those investments is targeted by particular groups manipulating stocks, the purpose of S.I. becomes vague. Is the purpose of each thread to discuss the merit of an investment? If so, why are the malicious and calculated strategies of stock manipulators permitted to disrupt and exploit the sanctity of that particular thread? Why are the 'disruptive' posters not made to 'stand in the corner' or go to the 'principal's office'? Instead, in a state of anarchy, investors and shareholders do battle with those only on the thread to manipulate the stock price. In doing so, they become the ones recieving punitive actions from S.I. administration! Investors and shareholders who are watching and witnessing their investment being manipulated now also must contend with punitive actions from S.I.. Why is the 'teacher' allowing the 'disruptive students' to run the class? The pattern repeats itself, from thread to thread, yet the only entity that appears oblivious is S.I. Administration. Shareholders are told to mention certain topics via PM. Shareholders, CEO's, Management, shareholders are slandered and silenced when they counter those doing the slandering. Posts are deleted. Suspensions are handed-out, yet...the source of the problem, the stock manipulators are allowed to continue the "disruption of the class", the class is now anarchy, the merits of the investment can no longer be discussed and combatting the manipulators of the stock and the disrupters of the thread only yeilds punitive actions against those defending their investments. Until the 'disruptive students' are made to stand in the corner so the class can be conducted without disruptions, shareholders and small investors will continue to be victimized by these stock manipulators and S.I. that sanctions their actions. Rich_1

To: SI Bob who wrote (1932)	7/23/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32918

Message 5285591 To: SI Admin (Bob) (50029 ) From: TopCat Thursday, Jul 23 1998 2:34AM ET Reply # of 50070 Sorry, I don't understand. Are you worried about your servers or the rights of you clients. This doesn't make sense to me. The post made a point...I don't agree with it but it is still a point. If you start doing this you are only confirming what some believe to be true. Stop Now! TC

To: SI Bob who wrote (1932)	7/23/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Respond to of 32918

Bob, I understand how difficult your job must be, and I'd like to extend my thanks for your balanced and (in my opinion) fair administration. Although I've had more than my share of warnings from SI, they were all deserved, and I have actually learned to be a more effective poster, and a more rational thinker because of them. My observation is that some folks have a hard time admitting that they have made a bad investment in a particular stock, and that it is easier to blame others rather than looking into the mirror. I think some folks think that their stocks wouldn't go down if people just weren't allowed to say negative things about their stock. Anyway, thanks for helping to keep SI the best site on the 'net to get BOTH sides of the story. Barb