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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (6)	7/26/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: ilh1	Respond to of 30

There is no question nor contest, SI is both Leader and Standard Bearer when it comes to Postings, Information, Thread Layout and Design. SI is also more civilized than yahoo, to say the least. On SI, you will get annoying stock bashers. But on Yahoo, their basher will say every nasty, filthy, dirty word imaginable with nothing being done, and the posting not removed. On several occasions, I have seen the most foul and nasty language said, that you can call another human being posted again and again on yahoo. IMO, until Yahoo stops the foul language, it will never be ranked in the same class as the prestigious Silicon Investor. Also, posters on SI are perceived to be more knowledgeable than all others. Noticed the number of times SI is referred to on other boards. I am fortunate to have discovered SI when it was Free.

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (6)	7/26/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Jonathan Boyd	Respond to of 30

Hello Kerry and all, Would you all be willing to respond to this short survey re: the impact of Internet investor forums on investment decisions? If so, please send responses to my personal mail box. Replies will be kept anonymous. I will be glad to post the result of my findings to anyone interested. Thanks in advance (survey below), Jon EMAIL SURVEY OF INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS ______________________________________________________ PURPOSE OF SURVEY: The primary purpose of this survey is to examine the influence of Internet bulletin boards (`chat rooms") as a deciding influence on the decisions of individual investors. Secondarily, by polling the performance of individual investors who make use of Internet investor forums in their investment decisions, a judgement regarding the benefit of such forums to individual investors can be made. The research will be used as a private class project submitted to the faculty of the University of Phoenix. QUESTIONS: a. How many stock or option transactions (buy or sell) have you placed in the last twelve months? __ 1-9 __10-19 __20-29 __30-39 __40-49 __50-99 __100+ b. Are you a professional trader (defined for this survey as someone whose primary source of income is directly related to the generation of profit from investment activities)? c. What percentage of your trades in Question A were executed where information obtained through Internet investment bulletin boards was the driving impetus for the trade? __0% __1-24% __25-49% __50-74% __75-99% __100% d. What percentage of your trades in Question A was partially influenced by information obtained through Internet investment bulletin boards? __0% __1-24% __25-49% __50-74% __75-99% __100% e. What was the annual rate of return on your investment portfolio for the trades you listed in Question A? f. What was the annual rate of return on your investment portfolio for the trades you listed in Question C? g. How many hours per week do you spend on average reading or participating in Internet investment bulletin boards? Thank you for participating in this survey.