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To: Allen Benn who wrote (4170)	1/28/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 10309

Hi Allen, >>This means that the platitudinous reason they told you was not guaranteed to be truthful, and is almost certainly a lie.<< I didn't really believe their answer, and kept wondering about the real reason. >>In a nutshell, your friendly broker, noticing that you had a significant (concentrated) position in WIND, placed WIND on the list, and may have contributed to the acceleration of Friday's crash.<< Most of my WIND shares are in my IRAs, so margin is irrelevant in my case. But I think the gist of your argument is plausible. Schwab may have some decision-making process based on its customers' collective holdings. And I strongly suspect that this margin maintenance issue added to WIND's volatility. Digital Cameras On another topic, I recently got one of these Kodak DC260 digital cameras you recommended last fall (with WIND's VxWorks inside). (In fact I bought it with the profits from shorting some WIND December puts.) Haven't had much time to play with it yet, but I sure like it. When time permits I'll post some photos on the web. Seems to me that when this thread started, digital photography was just another example of a hypothetical use for commercial-off-the-shelf RTOS systems. Nice to see it come to fruition. And despite all the dire warnings and predictions over the years, lo and behold the software inside is from Alameda instead of Redmond! So, got any pictures from your travels you can show us?