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To: INFO_DART who wrote (364)	10/17/1998 5:01:00 PM
From: mod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

<<Does the fear of termination and the selective enforcement of the Terms of Service have a chilling effect on discourse regarding gnet?>> You're posting, aren't you? Case closed. <<Can anyone make a CURRENT and RATIONAL argument either pro or con regarding shorting gnet?>> I no longer have a position in GNET, so I can't help you there. <<Would termination of my account for asking certain questions about SI and gnet constitute a SEC violation?>> Of course not. Analysts get banned from company conference calls all the time for asking the wrong questions. <<How does SI(gnet) handle their potential conflict of interest?>> No conflict that I can see. <<Has there ever been any posts deleted from this thread? >> If you violate the Terms of Use, you can get deleted. Dennis

To: INFO_DART who wrote (364)	10/17/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 28311

Well, that one man's, er, boy's opinion. >>Mr. Bill Martin, co-founder of RagingBull.com, is only 21 years old (if that means anything since I'm only 14 One of your schoolmates, perhaps?

To: INFO_DART who wrote (364)	10/17/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28311

INFO_DART, Any posting on a public forum by company officers for whatever reason is a violation of TSE rules in Ontario Canada. The SEC in the USA will probably have some similar comment. In effect when they make a statement here they are making a material release to a select group, and such a release should be made by a properly dirtributed press release to all, and not the select group.. Here is the TSE statement: tse.com download the file and read in acrobat. In addition there is also the reverse onus to not stop a share holder from airing his views by censoring his comments on any such internal web site commentary forum. Most TSE companies are discontinuing such forums totally ( pacrim-mining.com one among many) to comply with the TSE rules. Now with SI and GNET???? If they selectively remove any critical posters(like you....hint hint) then they enrich the group with people with favorable viewpoints. Eventually this becomes a glee club. That is against the TSE rules and probably against the SEC rules as they have made a self congratulatory group by removing all those with negatives. This resembles a group promoting a stock to such a degree that it will arouse suspicion in regulatory bodies. Bear in mind that such a group will arise whenever any degree of censorship is emplaced either by SI or by the members who post. I am sure you recall the diverse groups, brokers, shorts, promoters and even insiders anonymously who were on BRE-X before and during the fall. Now SI seems to be fairlly even handed and lets you make some criticisms of G-NET, but you have a bad habit of going to extremes. extremes are rarely representative of true market conditions, so when you post these scenarios you encourage flights towards that extreme. Just like a promoter with his extreme you have yours, and so SI will snip your cohones if you go too far. They have let you return, so tread with care and ask only reasonable questions and make no unsubstantiated accusations and you will "live long and prosper" as they say. Bill PS try ragingbull.com they have copied SI's format, a bit blatantly I mus say, but they will have a GNET forum and you can run wild there, of course watch what you say about the raging bull B