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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (12954)	7/25/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Ramsey - re : Seriously, do you really want the QC thread to be just all worthless noise? Well, maybe. Whenever I see that there have been 20 or 30 posts since I have last looked, I always think "Gregg Powers (and Maurice) could not have done 25 long, detailed, incredibly useful posts all in the last few hours, so I guess I'll have fun reading the posts from the 'mere mortals' " Also, I find it neat that these various threads are a sort of permanent (or, at least until SI decides that they need more "disk" space) record of the psychological "ups and downs" of the participants. Example -- after all of the publicity came out about Entremed in The New York Times a few months ago, I found it fascinating to go to the SI thread on Entremed, and dig back many months previously to see the similar euphoria after the big article was published in Nature and also covered by CNN, but then, apparently more or less ignored by Wall Street. (What this says about the relative clout of CNN vs. The New York Times, I won't get into here). One of the most obvious ways to detect Entremed followers' level of "Oh my gosh" was to see how often people posted quotes on the stock. If we are all hereby warned that we will be "flamed" for posting quotes on Qualcomm (when we think it is of note), I think it lessens the quality of this thread. Last thought -- my wife, who read your post first, asked a very interesting question : "If the Dell Computer thread is so stupid, how come you are so familiar with it?" Jon.