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To: Robert O who wrote (26195)	11/12/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 70976

Robert O., do pundits sweat their predictions? A tongue-in-cheek article. infoworld.com excerpt: Second, it is easy to make grandiose predictions because analysts or pundits are rarely held accountable when they are wrong. (My twin brother, being the exception, suffered a 30-minute time-out as punishment for his prognostications regarding OpenDoc.) As long as one doesn't harp on a risky prediction, most people will have forgotten who said what by the time it proves false. By then, the only ones who know for sure who made the blunders are the blunderers. And there's no sense in them dwelling on the past, eh? Re >Bill C. is a lawyer. Yikes!< I know. That was bait to get you to post.<G> Gottfried