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Biotech / Medical : Vivus: into single digits -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MIKE DUBIS who wrote (916)	8/28/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: VLAD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1016

Mike, You and I have always accepted our differences in opinion and have been able to joke around unlike most of the other long/short relationships. I used to read the thread before I bought into Vivus after the December 9th drop. Seeing that the short interest has always been fairly high, I can imagine that Vivus caused then a lot of stress during its 2 runs to 40. Honestly, when Vivus was over 30 I told myself that it was overvaluated. After doing a lot of DD on the product I thought that accumulating in the 10 to 15 range was a fair price to pay. Admittedly, my BIG mistake was not scrutinizing the management of this company and for this I and others pay dearly. I don't like seeing the way the management of Vivus has treated its investors. If I could have it my way, I would wish that everyone who supported this company could get out at "break even" and that in the end it does go to ZERO because ZERO is what all the bozos managing Vivus deserve. I am glad you have made money shorting Vivus and I hope it was in the 6 figure range. I don't blame the shorts. In fact I commend them at doing an absolutely excellent job at making sure that the public always is exposed to the negative spin and I can only laugh at the total incompetence of Vivus' IR in defending the shareholder's interests. NF probably gets 40k for ? Wilson gets 300k for ? I would have been willing to run their IR for free and I bet this stock would today be at 10. And that is because I would have shown the investors that I really care about them as investors and at least there would have been some confidence and much less anger towards the company. VLAD PS Let me know when you decide to cover.

To: MIKE DUBIS who wrote (916)	8/28/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 1016

>>You can't expect complete silence but any posts will have compassion. but, please, you really have to stop blaming the shorts for what is happening. That is too old<< Say mike, I did not see you tell people not to buy and its all a scam etc etc etc when the price was 24-32. In fact I think you were one of the people who were trying to drive people like me off when we were saying to be very cautious. Ofcourse I was not as in volved and did not see exactly how manipulated things were at the time except indirectly having to deal with the same people in other stocks. And just like at the time I was cautioning longs this time I caution the shorts. Ofcourse I am biased, although I am not in the hype the stock to heaven, I also feel that there is a true need for MUSE and dont want to see it disappear, Its much easier and faster to destroy than to create.