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To: PartyTime who wrote (1037)	2/17/1999 8:53:00 AM
From: CWIII	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2003

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To: PartyTime who wrote (1037)	2/17/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 2003

I don't have to answer your questions, PT. Anyway, I suspect my answers and your answers would be similar, don't you think? I don't think much of penny stocks - don't think that many of them make it. A few do. (I suppose you feel you'd found that 1 in 100...) Your "defense" demands that answer, so you'd be happy with my answer. Yes, it's a penny stock. But so what? I think it's funny that when you tout this penny stock, you don't offer the caution that is inherent in this defense. In other words, when criticized, you cry "It's only a penny stock! What DO you expect of it? Don't you know that most penny stocks never make it? Don't you know that it can take a long, long time for those that do?" So, you demand that I go easy on them, because I know that they are cr*p. What a laugh! Yet you don't bother to point this out when you hype one. If you did, we wouldn't be having this conversation, and I probably wouldn't even be here. Because you would have made a balanced presentation of the opportunity and the risk.