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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andrew H who wrote (24279)	8/9/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32384

Andy, Our famous naysayer used to post on MIS and the newsgroup would automatically put up the poster's E-Mail address. He actually used to be a fair ordinary poster. He occasionally commented on LGND and he also put up posts on his two favorite Biotechs, AMLN and VICL. He also used to post on this thread fairly rarely. I wasn't until AMLN tanked last summer, (after our naysayer invited me over to the thread to comment on AMLN's Phase III data for Pramlintide, which was a disaster) that our famous naysayer took up residence here, and it wasn't until this past spring that he began his cyberstalking campaign. I think that his first go_lgnd post (On Yahoo!) was at the end of March: messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com He had mentioned SI and had linked one of my posts. When I used the link, a box requesting name and SI membership password popped up. Since I had set up Links to Ligand, I knew that each post here could be accessed via many URL's. Some were from members and required a name and password, while others were from non-members, and the link would take you the reader directly to the post. After go_lgnd posted a bit, I thought that the handle was rather curious, because the posts began to sound just like our famous naysayer and the links that go_lgnd was using were being created by someone who had an SI membership. I was curious about the handle that go_lgnd used here and when I asked, he denied that he was an SI member. It soon became obvious who he was (go_lgnd and our famous naysayer were the only people who posted on LGND and called Legg Mason Legg Manson and the posts were virually identical and would appear at about the same time). Soon the stalking moved to MIS. That newsgroup had gone downhill and there was very little posting on Biotechs or Ligand. When our famous naysayer began stalking there (as Hank Hill) he signed his first post as --Tony. He had managed to change his name, but the service would show that the post came from an AT&T account. In the several years that I had been posting on MIS, there was only one other LGND poster from AT&T and that was tonyt@worldnet.att.net. After that, posts kept showing up with different, names, addresses, and domains, but they all had a couple of consistent characteristics. The name was newly created. A click on the author profile indicated that the post was one of the first made on MIS, and all posts were made on a Ligand thread. This has continued ever since. The posts sound like our famous naysayer, have many identities, but all are new identities that come from AT&T. Our naysayer continues to deny that he is doing the posting, but it is soooo obvious (someone actually called him a moron for continuing to deny any relationship, while the AT&T organization stamp appeared, and continues to appear on every post)! Thus, I would not fault our naysayer for using his E-mail account (it showed up automatically and he wasn't cyberstalking at the time and now he actually has changed that potion of his posts for this year), but he continues to use an AT&T account that appears on all of his MIS posts!