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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (69320)	12/3/1998 8:40:00 AM
From: Jean M. Gauthier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks for posting it.. very informative Jean

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (69320)	12/7/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Thomas G. Busillo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Barry, IMHO Tom Gardner is wrong on Kurlak/analysts. They're not "sales analysts"... ...they're "marketing assistants" <g> MA's. Or better yet - what about "elite marketing units"? "elite" - since any group permitted by the SEC to receive material information from companies during closed market-hours conference calls, pass it on to their clients (traders) within seconds, have those traders trade on it, and face no civil or criminal repercussion whatsoever would seem to be somewhat "elite"; "marketing" - for the points that Tom Gardner is raising; and "units" - since when you get right down it it they're interchangable, replacable, tools serving their brokerage firm masters... ...okay, so maybe then go with "utensils"... So, "Elite Marketing Utensils"... ...which gives us the acronym - emu... ...which strangely enough is also a word that refers to a swift-running flightless bird bearing similarities to the ostrich. Funny how that happened <g> Kudos to Tom Gardner and the MF's. That was an excellent piece. Maybe not all sell-side analysts deserve that degree of cynicism, but Kurlak certainly does. Good trading, Tom