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To: DiViT who wrote (36949)	10/30/1998 11:28:00 AM
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Friday, October 30, 1998 Exclusive: Silicon Investor's Sheriff Lady departs Jill McKinney, all-powerful Webmistress of Silicon Investor's raucous bulletin boards, tells Money.com why she is hanging up her holster By Borzou Daragahi moneydaily.com For the last two years, Jill McKinney has been a solitary soldier in the army of good taste and Internet decorum, standing guard in a watchtower over the millions of messages posted to the mammoth Silicon Investor stock-discussion Web site (http://www.techstocks.com) and booting out folks who broke the rules. The legendary Webmistress of the 100,000-member SI, she has broken up ferocious online fights, ejected shameless pitchmen, and stepped in to warn countless users about cussing, vulgarity and ad hominem attacks. For her efforts, she has received death threats, marriage proposals, a dozen roses, and even accusations of impersonating a woman. "She's a babe," says Chester Lee, a San Francisco chemist who met McKinney at a party (everyone knew who Jill was) and has since become a pal. As Money.com caught up with the number three player at SI, the first employee hired by co-founders Brad and Jeff Dryer, the 27-year-old Birmingham, Ala. native was thinking about marriage and what to do with her cut of the $35 million in stock Seattle-based