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To: JDN who wrote (21524)	8/2/1998 9:00:00 AM
From: doormouse	Respond to of 31646

[LONG investors to DEMAND delivery of their shares] JDN, and gang... I've read reference to this idea 1,000,000 times... to my knowledge, as it stands today it costs bokoo $$ to get delivery of shares you own. Why couldn't some smart broker introduce a checkbox to the effect "DELIVER MY SHARES" without actually going through the motion of physical handling, delivery and cost? Would seem that the 1,000,000 ppl who've posted this suggestion would consider throwing such broker(s) some business --- just as we did in the days when trading went from $100 to $10. PS - I closed out all of my shorts (KTEL, last) 'cuz I found that, for every dollar I'd shorted, I was spending 10 times more energy chanting 'DIE, SUCKER, DIE!", thus laying a negative over the whole day. Since covering my shorts, now I stare at the screen chanting "GO! GO!" --- this seems to have a positive effect on my general disposition. bye, .k1b0

To: JDN who wrote (21524)	8/2/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Starfish*	Respond to of 31646

JDN, FYI Shares in a cash account, or IRA account cannot be available for shorting, only shares in a margin account!

To: JDN who wrote (21524)	8/3/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

JDN--- It sure is down from where I started accumulaing this time! My 1st 12.5K shares were under under $3. They could only go up from there. Yes the upside is greater than the downside IMO but feel the 1st of this buy @ 8 3/4 may be a loss. Then it seemed the co could go farther than it did and now it seems it may never break the old highs. There was momentum then too. The shorts are not helping in anyway but they are not to blame, at 12+++ it was overvalued and still ran too far too fast. There never was a short that did not pay attention to that kind of a run (shorts got creamed with the likes of YHOO though). They are still careful with companies with strong mgmt that cares about shareholder equity as that kind of mgmt can assist a squeeze getting started and/or being sustained... one thing they do not have to worry about with this team. The mkt overall is on a downward trend. What do you call a mkt that has seen the drop in valuation as we have seen on the DOW/NAS & R-2000--- if not a bear what? Many issues of strong, well known companies are off 20% or more with no fundamental changes and strong (so far) earnings. Mergers often cause shares being required to be turned in... when that happens those short,,,shit! Hoping jr