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To: Loki who wrote (37360)	11/24/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

I hope the exchange between Garcia and Jimbo was a joke. If it wasn't then it was disturbing. I hope that any readers of this thread will do due dilligence before investing. Tips from posters can be useful in alerting you to possibilities. But nobody should invest until they have done due dilligence. This includes achieving a clear understanding of the fundamental arguments for and against a stock and an understanding of the need for timing. By and large any decision made in haste in a buying panic or a selling panic, will be a bad decision. Never invest because "ipso dixit" - a Latin phrase meaning "he himself said it". Even if you think you know the identity and investment record of posters on the thread, and the chances are you do not know, you should never invest because somebody told you to. If you do want to invest on the say so of another, make sure that that other is in a position where they can be held accountable for their bad advice or their self-interested advice. In a way, the exchange answered my earlier question "why CPQ". The frustration of one step forward two steps back, while we await a better market valuation, is preferable to the exciting but potentially devastating results of chasing meteorites. Victor