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To: Beantown who wrote (6935)	7/29/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 11684

Bean, once again, the SEC is not going to shut down anything just because of some email complaints. That would leave them wide open for a ton of reckless and negligent behaviour suits. Consider for a moment, that they might want to protect themselves&#151so they go poking around a bit to see if the complaints have any merit. If it's just hot air, they blow it off. If it isn't squeaky clean, then it warrants deeper investigation; thus a halt. Never would they halt an issue just for kicks, because some Joe Average/SI Member found their in-box. More rational or plausible? -MrB (and yes, this has been explained a few times over the past few hours, yet still the question persists)

To: Beantown who wrote (6935)	7/29/1998 10:15:00 PM
From: Druss	Respond to of 11684

Beantown--I can't claim any direct knowledge of the situation. I am skeptical though that the SEC would suspend a stock from trading because of a negative spamming campaign via E-mail. They would want something they can get their teeth into. I can speculate (and all it is, is speculation) as to why they acted but here are a few: they received a tip from within the company, they received a credible tip from outside the company, or they got complaints, investigated, and found something they felt was seriiously questionable. Simply acting on a spamming of E-mails would leave almost any BB company vulnerable to such actions by their competition or the same sort of individual(s) who create computer viruses. If I were the person working for the SEC who initiated this move I would not want to say to my superiors that the reason I stopped trading on a security is I got a lot of E-mails complaining about or questioning the company, I would want some evidence of wrong doing. All the Best Druss