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To: Howard Hoffman who wrote (19014)	1/23/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Number of posts don't matter, the personal posts where you spend time showing others down - Do maTtER.... try doing something more constructive with your time.... go eat some worms outside.... and you can write as much as you want...just don't address your banal arguements at people who dislike you.....that is all I was trying to say.

To: Howard Hoffman who wrote (19014)	1/23/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27307

If the rest of the yahoo thread would like to determine Howies credibility, just click on his name and check out his posts from last April. He was doing the same kind of doom and gloom predictions about all the Internets. As for you Howard, you bring out the worst in me! This happens not because you think these stocks are overvalued at current valuations (because so do I) but rather because of your incessant need to post and repost how they are going to crash. If you think they are going to crash...sell puts or short and explain your logic and method for doing so to help others make money too! This is truly what SI was meant to be. Explain to others why you feel a certain put at a certain strike is of greater value. I know that week's back I talked about selling short while holding my long position in an effort to limit the downside risk after earnings. This would have locked my profits and made my investment stable until I thought it was time to go long again. Nobody attacked me because it was a well thought out plan and was not shoved down their throats! 23 posts per day with predictions that Yahoo is going to 50 are what incite the thread. You have done it before and been wrong.... DEAD WRONG! So, I guess what I am saying is that it's how you say it not what you say.

To: Howard Hoffman who wrote (19014)	1/23/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

<<Or maybe the past 2 weeks have been too tough on him and he has to lash out at anyone who is profiting on the other side.>> Howard, just as you have pointed out that you own puts, I have pointed out that I have owned Yahoo for quite a while. I could see quite a bit more downside and not be out any money. My profits would be gone but I would not lose money. That is where I think many people make a mistake. Too many folks look at their portfolio and determine up or down based on last months value. As a result they make emotional trades that are based on market timing. I believe that this type of action is the road to hell. People must buy what they can afford based on the company, not the stock and hold it! I don't ever margin stocks like yahoo. I do margin stocks like msft, dell, intc ect. I also never buy stocks like Yahoo in a self directed IRA. Self Directed can become self destructed too fast with speculative issues.